Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SATISFACTION of reading a Henry James novel is seeing through eyes that penetrate the surface of Victorian manner and dress, and resolve scenes of human life into clearer images of human nature. The appeal is surely intellectual rather than emotional--the beauty of a James' novel is not so much in the characters' intrigues, but in the author's view of them...
...France; Miller was a former Foreign Service officer in Iran who had opposed Administration policy toward the Shah. The two men had already left for Iran when Khomeini announced that he would not meet with them. The White House told them to remain in Istanbul until the situation became clearer...
...idea of the school has become clearer, and the idea of its mission becomes larger, more people of wealth have been thinking about what they can do to support it," Allison says, adding that the school has attracted many gifts from people without close Harvard connections...
...urgency for action on the energy program becomes clearer all the time. Brandishing the oil weapon in Belgrade, Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail warned that continued depreciation of the dollars that the OPEC countries are paid for their oil might very well "evoke reactions." By that he presumably meant that the OPEC countries might force buyers to pay in a "basket" of many currencies rather than just in dollars; if this were to happen, demand for dollars would decline and they would slide further in value...
While world moneymen continue slouching toward a new financial Bethlehem, it becomes clearer that the only real way to restore the dollar's health is to cut America's inflation. As long as prices continue climbing at a rate of 13% in the U.S., compared with 6% in West Germany, the dollar will sink and the mark will rise. In such circumstances the dollar is lost, and attempts to save it will only ruin the nation's industry by making such exports as computers, airplanes and chemicals vastly too expensive in Japan or Germany, and imports like...