Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aubuisson's forces got their way at the assembly's first working session on Monday. After teasing and baiting the Christian Democrats for 6½ hours, the rightists rammed through "Decree No. 3," granting broad governing powers to the assembly. In addition to naming the top provisional government officials, the right-dominated assembly will ratify all Cabinet appointments, exercise all legislative authority, write a new constitution and organize new national elections, perhaps as early as next year. In effect, the decree seemed likely to make D'Aubuisson and his coalition partners in the assembly the country...
...severity of the current recession was written in red across scores of first-quarter corporate earnings reports last week. Beset by sagging sales and oppressive interest rates, companies in a broad array of industries, from autos and airlines to steel and even oil, posted sharp profit declines or outright losses...
What is a woman? A "petticoat, skirt, moll, broad," according to one recent U.S. edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Also "the fair sex, girlie, distaff side, Venus, nymph, wench, grisette and bit of fluff." Such archaisms have a kind of antique charm for veteran Rogetophiles, but new times demand new stereotypes. Accordingly, the British publishing firm of Longman advertised in the London Times Educational Supplement for an editor to update its standard 1962 version of Roget's. The result, out last month after more than three years of work, brought some shocked reviews. Cried the London Sunday Times...
...they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people use the thesaurus to find the words they ought to be using." When asked which words he might suppress, McCormack looked up "woman" in his desktop U.S. edition. "Ah hah," he said, "here's 'broad.' I'd want to get that out. And 'wench.' And here's one that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what does Lloyd's new British edition actually include as synonyms for woman? "Career woman...
JUST AS THESE conclusions will be too grand to filter down into concrete good, so Bok's approach to the issues that confront him as an educator is too broad. He should be commended for concerning himself with such a pressing topic as financial aid, and it is difficult to find fault with much of the logic that characterizes his annual report. But, in the long run. Bok's words will serve only to clarify that the president of Harvard likes the idea of federal aid to students--in general. Aside from a few loose suggestions for the feds...