Word: actualized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion slice of next year's proposed $126 billion defense budget is the largest allotted any individual military service and is an increase over this year's $39.5 billion. The admirals, however, are not satisfied. They correctly complain that inflation will turn this modest increase into an actual reduction. But what distresses them most is that shipbuilding funds, which they consider the backbone of the service, have been dramatically slashed, from $5.8 billion this fiscal year to $4.7 billion next. This will permit the construction of only 15 new vessels instead of the 29 planned by the Ford Administration...
...California's 1.5 million-member state and local bureaucracy, contend that it would lead to mass layoffs of teachers, police and firemen. Backers of Jarvis-Gann say that the warnings are preposterous and that the state is already running a $3.5 billion surplus that would soften the actual cutbacks to little more than moderate retrenchments...
Canards have so persisted that many untraveled Americans might be surprised to learn that millions of Southerners hate grits and could not quote the King James if threatened with hellfire. Scholars often fail to see that actual Mississippi is related to Yoknapatawpha County only as the tones of the musical scales are related to the symphonies of Beethoven. Even the grating H.L. Mencken did not manage to cut through the spoon bread. After a smart assessment of the Sahara of the beauxarts, Mencken paused to mourn the passing of a more "cultured" South that existed only in legend...
...Charles Playhouse, is a short (29 minute) comedy. Called Schubert's Last Serenade' it poses the question: Can a radical Radcliffe Sophomore find true happiness with a hard hat? In an "elegant French restaurant"? Amid the "smashing of violins"? The play is performed with Stage III, which is the actual restaurant at the Charles Playhouse. Shows are Wednesday through Sunday; call the box-office at 338-7807 for more info...
...present fame by dabbling idly and relying on her name and good fortune to pull her through. Modern artists, believe it or not, have theory behind their work--complicated and highly-philosophical theory at times--that often ends up being a more important influence on their followers than the actual works...