Word: careful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the Chinese are being conditioned with some care to accept doctrine so heretically un-Maoist that it could
...synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language has been besieged by vulgarities. But it has also been enriched by vigorous phrases and terms. To those who speak and write with care, those words are the unmistakable beats of life...
...managers than one that is just high. Despite IBM's dazzling record of sales and profit gains, its stock, adjusted for past splits, sells for a bit less than it did ten years ago. Reason: institutional and pension fund managers hold about as many IBM shares as they care to, since they want to maintain balanced portfolios, and the stock has been too expensive for all but the richest individual investors; so demand for the shares has declined. Politically, the more widely a company's stock is held, the more clout it has; AT&T's nearly...
...future of women under an Islamic government has become a controversial issue. Ironically, many educated women are taking more traditional views as a form of political involvement and protest against the Shah's autocratic rule. The day care centers are now almost deserted. Many of the young women who took to skirts, slacks and blue jeans as signs of their emancipation have gone back to the ankle-length chador. Intended to hide the female form, it has been worn in Persia since the ninth century. Religious law requires that it be worn outdoors at all times and indoors...
...saving less of their incomes than in a decade-only 5.1%, which is down from the 1973-75 average of 7.6%. This may be due in part to a feeling that people need not worry about their old age because Medicare, Social Security and private pensions will take care of them, but the attitude represents a basic change in consumer psychology. When inflation ran high in past years, consumers reduced their borrowing and increased their savings out of fear of bad times ahead. This helped fight inflation by braking an economy that needed slowing...