Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theater, sometimes exiting stage right to appear moments later in the balcony with a totally different costume. Halfway through the hour and 45 minute show the audience is in a whirl trying to keep up with all the quick changes and leaping about, but they get no intermission to allow time to sort...
Last month Sir Murray MacLehose became the first Hong Kong Governor ever to pay an official visit to Peking. His warm reception by Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) was a signal of Peking's intent to allow the colony to maintain its traditional status and increasingly to involve it in the push to modernization. On his return, MacLehose quoted Deng as saying that investors in Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." In short, China's pragmatic post-Mao leaders value Hong Kong as a window on the world and a source...
Chitrabhanu founded the Meditation International Center in New York City in 1974 to provide an oasis of tranquillity in the city and to allow people a place to expand their consciousness of themselves and of life. Each class and program at the center is designed to harmonize mind, body and soul. Twice weekly Chitrabhanu lectures at the center--he says his talks are never planned; rather, he speaks extemporaneously as he perceives needs among his students. The center also offers courses on meditation through music, tai chi (a Chinese dance-like movement joining body and consciousness), hatha yoga and vegetarian...
...message, During this period he wrote, "Every newspaper headline is a potential song, and it is the role of an effective songwriter to pick out the material that has the interest, significance and sometimes humor adaptable to music... it never ceases to amaze me how the American people allow the hit parade to hit them over the head with a parade of song after meaningless song about love...
Down 6-2 at half-time, the Harvard team switched into gear for the second half and matched the Tigers goal for goal. But the Princeton defense refused to relax and allow Harvard to catch up. The Crimson could not find any way to move consistently by its opponents and instead found itself clogging up the area around the goalcage rather than spreading out and making the necessary passes...