Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Malthus grimly announced that no person has any claim on society for a "right to subsistence when his labor will not fairly purchase it." David Ricardo worked out what became known as the "iron law of wages." His thesis: workers in the long run would get only the bare minimum necessary to keep themselves and their families alive. If they temporarily should earn more, they would breed so many children that competition for jobs eventually would drive wages down again. Ricardo did not think that this state of affairs was desirable?only inevitable. Nonetheless, he and Malthus earned...
...like an impotent rapist, or a scholar with writer's cramp. Harry Moseby gets everything set up--then he can't make the last move. He's likeable enough; the people around him bare themselves to him (quite literally, in the imagery of the picture), but Harry Moseby always stands silently behind screened porches, seen through the pane of a glass-bottomed boat, sitting down on a turned-around chair leaning his arms on the shield of its back. When he's got everything solved, and his life awaits that final gesture of control when all the pieces come together...
...Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad only in a solid gold mesh dancer's belt. After his performance, the very bare dancer greeted the First Lady with the poise of a man wearing tie and tails. When asked later what Betty had to say about his threads, the Star responded: "She did not say anything. Why, does it bother...
...orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...report's detail and comprehensiveness surprised many Administration opponents, especially congressional Democrats, who had feared a whitewash. Still they are unlikely to be satisfied that the entire record has been laid bare until after the Senate committee finishes investigating the CIA later this year. The chairman of the Senate probe, Democrat Frank Church of Idaho, declared that the Rockefeller commission report "may represent just the tip of the iceberg." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called the report "good but not complete." In particular, the Democrats were disappointed that Ford had not released 85 pages of the original report that...