Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brezhnev inherited many problems from his rambunctious, buccaneering predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev-icy relations with the West, a desire for more freedom in the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe, an economy retarded by the chaotic situation in agriculture brought about by Khrushchev's constant tinkering...
Without a Trace. A number of dissidents have reportedly been confined to lunatic asylums for expressing unorthodox opinions. Hundreds have been arrested or put under constant police surveillance. Among the most recent targets is Physicist Robert Havemann, an open critic of East Germany's Communist regime. Seized late last month at his home outside East Berlin, he is being held under stringent house arrest. Another victim is a leading East German writer, Jürgen Fuchs, who disappeared without a trace after the police kidnaped him on a busy street in broad daylight...
...year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss; they saw and heard a great deal...
Carter himself took note of that at week's end and disavowed any thought of asking for outright price controls, even on a stand-by basis. Said the President-elect: "I believe that the constant threat of wage-price controls is sometimes a stimulation for unwarranted increases in wages and prices, and I want to remove that threat completely from business and labor." Yet, as COWPS Head Lilley warned the steel men, a flurry of price rises could lead to the controls "that business seeks to avoid...
Holmes' character lends its tone to the movie. Such a thoroughgoing evocation and spoof of detective dilletantism does have intrinsice entertainment value. But parodying parody has its pitfalls, and mockery--even self-mockery--can become its own affectation. The problem with The Seven Percent Solution is that in its constant pursuit of dry wit it becomes dessicated...