Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter fight in Levittown between teacher and taxpayer involved basic problems that are plaguing school districts across the country. It was no coincidence that three conservative members were elected to the seven-member school board on the same day that Howard Jarvis pushed the tax-cutting Proposition 13 through in California...
...seven children and a former FBI man: "I don't have a corner on the world's wisdom, but I think we were right." He plans to spend much of the money that the district makes from teacher and union fines on remedial pro grams in basic skills...
...Angeles, according to one observer, the basic rule is to defer to old money, and when that fails, defer to money. Consider a recent black-tie dinner for eight in the Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills, where liveried attendants park the cars and the houses are modeled after Tiberius' villas on Capri. The table was authentic Chippendale, the service gold leaf, the goblets and tableware gold. A chamber trio played. Among the guests: a history professor, a concert pianist, the wife of a German philosopher. And beside her: a young actor in a shimmering silk T shirt with...
Anarchism's basic tenet is that no individual or institution has the right to initiate force against another individual. Since governments have the authority to enact and enforce laws that affect citizens' lives, anarchists call for the abolition of the state, or at least the reduction of the state's function to that of protecting individual rights. To replace the activities and services the state provides, anarchists envision individuals and groups entering into voluntary contractual agreements, on either a capitalist or socialist economic basis...
...Christina not write her book when her mother was alive to defend herself? "The story was not yet finished," she replies, somewhat disingenuously. "I had no idea how it would end." Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...