Word: bole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such as starvation in some parts of the world...
...portion of its profit by shipping dead servicemen home from Vietnam. But it does not necessarily follow that Harvard must dump Pan Am or face charges of war profiteering. To ask that would require a highly simplified and unrealistic view of the situation, one in which Harvard's tiny bole of shares could control Pan Am policy and Pan Am could control the conduct...