Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison/He's lost his sight, they say/ I'm going to seek his pardon/ This cold December day.") Ajemian's reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year...
...hope Britain will not follow that peculiar Americanism known as affirmative action, in order to help immigrants. Such programs exacerbate a feeling of resentment among the majority population and can only exacerbate the immigrants' inferiority complex. Sean O' Sullivan East Peckham, England...
...scaffolds in public squares and strung up these devils at the beginning of the revolution, we would have had none of these troubles." In ordering the army and his own Islamic guards to march to Kurdistan, he warned his military commanders: " You will meet revolutionary action yourselves if you fail to move into Kurdistan within 24 hours...
What serious retrenching has occurred so far has been highly selective. Says Georgia State University Economist Donald Ratajczak, speaking about the status of retail sales: "The discount and the high quality lines are good; the in-between is dead. Top and bottom are where the action is." Translation: in marked contrast with their behavior during past economic slowdowns, people are not closing their wallets entirely but are scrambling for bargains, on the one hand, and, on the other, scooping up top quality, long-lasting goods at any price...
...Manhattan office of Brook Street Bureau of May fair Ltd., a personnel agency: "Business has never accepted the fact that a secretary also wants a career path." At the same time, efforts to attract men to secretarial work have fared poorly, while minorities prefer to take advantage of affirmative action programs that enable them to get jobs that promise faster advancement...