Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market was so bad I had to get out." Great Lakes Homes, once a big Wisconsinbased home prefabricator, has filed in bankruptcy. To lure customers despite forbidding mortgage terms, some Boston builders have offered to shave $1,000 or $2,000 off the sales price if the buyer will accept a house with one or two unfinished rooms. Allstate S & L, taking over a tract of $45,000 homes from a bankrupt developer in Whittier, Calif., even gives a free Mustang to buyers who make a 20% down payment. Still, a few builders are thriving. With ample lines of mortgage...
...sort of six-foot sissy who plays with little kids because he's scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh from Disney's patented freckle dip, who act as if they would follow Fred into the jaws of heck...
...most politically potent argument for a volunteer army is a slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." Friedman says that it is plainly unfair to punish a man by drafting him and then punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...
...soon as they feel comfortable in the middle-group courses, most students find the educational experience euphoric. They generally revere their section leaders ("He's a God," sighed one Cliffie), and accept his criticism as the kind advice of a helpful expert. Most look with solicitous condescension on those stranded in the renamed version...
...think we trifle with the intelligence of the American democracy when we assume it will never accept bad news, must indeed be fed a constant diet of good news about past programs, accompanied by forecasts of catastrophe unless new and greater ones are enacted," Moynihan told the committee...