Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Burt makes the Czar a clever and proper bastard, and an amusing one. Jason Kanter, as Bekhmetyev, manages to create the figure to which, in some ways, Lermontov aspires, a man who lives by "intellect alone," devoid of emotion, manipulating and destroying the lives of others with absolute control...
...remember the poster which said: "STRIKE FOR THE SIX DEMANDS STRIKE BECAUSE YOU HATE COPS . . . STRIKE TO SEIZE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE STRIKE TO BECOME MORE HUMAN . . . STRIKE TO MAKE YOURSELF FREE STRIKE TO ABOLISH ROTC STRIKE BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF YOU STRIKE?" It defines...
...personal savings to get rid of his money before rising prices and taxes further reduced its value. Consumer spending, instead of declining 1.9% last year as the government had intended, rose by 1.2%. Wages also rose by 7% last year and prices by 6%, despite government efforts to control both. The government undermined its own wage-restraint policies by agreeing to a big raise for workers on the government-owned railways...
...restaurant for the past 40 years. Lately, Bob Kriendler had been wondering if the family should sell it lest the death of one owner create estate problems that might impair the business. The Kriendlers had had a number of offers for the club, but they wanted to stay in control no matter who owned it. "We have our own way of doing things, and it is an expensive way," says Kriendler. "Who would let us continue to run '21' like absolute czars...
...most potential of all the pitchers," captain John Ignacio added. "He has the best slider, fast ball, and curve; all he really needs is the control and confidence that comes from playing regularly...