Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years because labor unions were consulted all along the way. But Barre's reforms were put forward as nonnegotiable, and he has refused to respond to union outcries. To be sure, the government has offered a variety of benefits to ease the pain: retraining programs, retirement at age 55, and severance pay of $11,700 for workers who quit voluntarily. The government has also tried to attract new industries to the areas where layoffs have been most severe...
Stand on their own? The oil depletion allowance? Enormous public subsidies for the arenas their gladiators fight in? Soon-to-be deregulated natural gas? The Warren Commission? That's what I call standing on your own in a heroic way. Let's nuke it back to the Stone Age and start again...
Cairns said scientists have succeeded in combatting only about 1 per cent of all cancers. "I have about the same probability of dying of cancer in the next year as my father had at my age," he said...
...Tillie quoted the following remark from a conference on creativity. "Creativity was in each one of us as a small child. In children it is universal. Among adults it is nonexistent. The great question is what happened to this enormous and universal capacity? That is the question of the age." This same sentiment is reflected in her own words from As I Stand Ironing. "Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does...
Levin is unconvincing as a middle-aged professor, although he does improve when he berates the magician. Often rushing through lines in a whining tone, Levin fails to employ vocal variety and facial expressions to add humor to his part. Neither does he work to age his voice and stage actions...