Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which they took place, which in turn shed a great deal of light on the conventions of Edwardian England. Much of the fun in Upstairs, Downstairs has been in seeing precisely how guests and hosts conducted a country-house weekend, for example, or how a solicitor maneuvered to blunt the family's democratic impulses and thus keep the class system intact for a few weeks more. That sort of dry, deft social management is nowhere present in Beacon Hill...
...some areas, while the overall increase in farm products, including hogs and poultry, was 6.6%. The reasons for these increases were intricate, but many Americans focused their anxiety and anger on one new element: the sudden Soviet orders for some 10 million tons of American grain. In typically blunt fashion, Burns predicted that the Russian purchases will cause consumer prices to rise "sharply." Butz insisted that the prices will climb, if at all, only "nominally." Who is right may not become completely clear until fall, but the outcome could well influence not just the price of a loaf of bread...
...That blunt stand forces into the open-as no previous case has-some of the legal, ethical and practical questions surrounding the whole issue of foreign bribery and political payoffs by American corporations. Immediately, Lockheed's position could provoke a legal battle over just how far the SEC can go in forcing a company to make public its foreign payments. If the company and the agency cannot agree-and Lockheed's statement would seem to leave little room for compromise-the SEC could hale Lockheed into federal court on charges of violating the agency's financial reporting...
Most leaders went to some effort to refrain from upsetting the heady atmosphere of peace and détente with their speeches. But Harold Wilson delivered a blunt address that accurately reflected the views of Britain's Western allies. "Detente means little if it is not reflected in the daily lives of our peoples," he told the delegates. "There is no reason why, in 1975, Europeans should not be allowed to marry whom they want, hear and read what they want, travel abroad when and where they want, meet when they want. To deny that proposition is a sign...
However, Coleman, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, said last night on a televised news program that busing is too "blunt an instrument" because it encourages whites to flee from the cities and move to predominantly white suburbs...