Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although many of these essays demonstrate her obsession with control, The White Album's one major flaw is an interior disorder. Each individual essay is superbly crafted, but together they leave no one, coherent impression, no sense of decision about the subjects she treats...
...revealing and brilliant title essay, she describes a list of articles she packs when traveling. She meticulously follows the list, but always forgets her watch. She shamefacedly asks people for the time every half hour until she resorts to calling her husband at home. Her passion for asserting control, for putting things--and herself--in order is always foiled...
ESSENTIALLY, the legislation would transfer control of more than 300 federal education programs, now administered by about 40 federal agencies, to one centralized department. Proponents of the bill argue that the monstrous Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)--never known for its efficiency--is crushing its education offspring in clammy bureaucratic jaws. The Commissioner of Education--the junior executive version of an education secretary--labors under four layers of bureaucratic waste; if, and when he sends up a flare, it never makes it to the top. It is an all too familiar tale of Washington woe: nobody knows...
...sell has been a totally voluntary one. Nevertheless, because an independent farmer can sell his produce only to the government, which unilaterally sets prices, the state can make a community like Jibacoa a farmer's only viable economic alternative. It seems clear that the state eventually plans to control all agricultural production...
...bill would have established a U.S.-controlled commission to operate the canal until the end of the century. Under the terms of the treaty, Panama would have gained complete control of the canal...