Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freshman Adam Dixon, sophomore John Murphy, junior Brad McNulty and senior John Chaffee--"the best team we can put together," McCurdy said--will represent Harvard after strong showings in the season's first two meets against Boston University and Brown...
...most surprising placing of the meet was freshman Adam Dixon's first in the 600 with an impressive early-season time of 1:11.89. "I entered Dixon in the race just for conditioning and experience, but no one told him that," McCurdy said...
...range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character in so sinister a role...
...heroes of this rural drama are the "big and efficient farmers" who "are giving the nation a lesson in Adam Smith economics." They calculate and compute and invest to pile up ever more profits like "Smith said capitalists should." Time fails to note that most farmers could make more money by stashing their assets in a bank vault and living off the interest. According to Time, the results of free market competition have been innovation, growing production and "reasonable costs to consumers...
Myth two: Adam Smith was right. Time's archaic assertion that small farmers are to blame for their inability to accumulate profits is about as accurate as saying a high unemployment rate is the fault of lazy welfare cheats. The forces putting farmers under have virtually nothing to do with their own efficiency, and everything to do with barriers to competition that would make Adam Smith very unhappy. Not only do farmers have to overcome drought, locust plagues, hail storms, and an uncontrollable international food market, but the numerous, relatively unorganized and competitive farmers also have to buy from...