Word: blots
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Getting the experts to describe the "crisis" often seems like asking them to analyze a Rorschach ink blot: each responds in terms of his own specialty. Most economists feel that the problem is not one of supply but of price-the cost of getting oil and gas to market. Specialists in international finance say that price as such is less important than the fact that consuming countries cannot keep handing over more and more money to the OPEC cartel members without imperiling global financial stability. By year's end the import bill for the U.S. alone will total...
...West Pointers have welcomed the EE 304 cadets. Their return, Cadet Mark Wroth complained in a letter last June to the campus paper, "is a blot on the academy, regardless of our personal opinions." Some faculty members agree. The former West Point commandant of cadets, Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., was reassigned last year when he opposed any leniency. Says one major: "We've lost credibility with cadets and we've lowered our standards...
...nasty blot on the good name of socialism in Eastern Europe: the waiting time for purchasing a private automobile is frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels...
...proper emotional upbringing of illegitimate children. While Shakespeare doesn't wrangle over issues as pragmatic as pregnancy in this play, you wonder if he didn't have more on his mind than Julia's male disguise when he put these words in her mouth: "It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,/Women to change their shape than men their minds...
Thomas Jefferson called it "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." In the past 200 years, more than 500 proposals have been made by Congress to reform it. Last week, for the first time in this century, a President put the weight of his office behind the notion that it should be abolished altogether. Jimmy Carter proposed that the arcane and archaic Electoral College be replaced with direct, popular-vote presidential elections. He called the change "an issue of overriding Government significance...