Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government-inflicted sufferings of taxpayers. Said he: "We have seen the trauma of high taxes on older people. The deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes...
...thousands of other Israelis, the land is Judea and Samaria, a part of the Eretz Yisrael into which Abraham led God's chosen people. Disputes about the future of the West Bank, which was occupied by Israel eleven years ago this month during the Six-Day War, cloud the prospects for a Middle East peace settlement. More than that, those arguments focus on the cruelest of conflicts: two families fighting over the same home...
...addition to some dissatisfaction with the contract, one unresolved strike issue remains to cloud relations between the union and the University. At the end of the strike, Powers and Joyce announced disciplinary action against the striking workers--a two-day suspension. Costello filed a grievance, delaying enforcement of this penalty. Joyce said he issued striking employees a warning notice and a suspension, but must wait resolution of the grievance for definite action...
Castello admits, however, that the bill "has not exactly caught on like wildfire," and that it is not likely to pass in the House. Despite the dark cloud under which the testing establishment has fallen recently, the immense market for standardized tests--such as the minimal competency tests that many states are now adopting--is growing, Castello says, adding, "As a nation we are showing no sign of decreasing our reliance on these tests...
...word around University Hall the past few years was that the days of student protest had vanished in a cloud of pre-professional anxiety. The word was wrong...