Word: correspondance
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Because he's unable to make decisions, the neurotic adopts an ideal model, and attempts to act as if he were that ideal. But he finds himself hopelessly stymied, since that ideal doesn't correspond at all to his own inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon...
Briefly, Meidner's plan calls for collective profit-sharing in firms with 100 or more employees. These firms would be required to issue new shares of stock of a national union council. The stock would correspond to a fixed percentage of company profits (Meidner suggests 10 to 30 per cent). The dividends would be used for the purchase of additional stock and to finance the educational programs necessary for the success of the attack on managerial prerogatives (workers' education in health, safety, accounting, finance...
...thing, this did seem like an appropriate time to pledge myself to a complete overhaul of my personality--always with Radcliffe in mind, of course--and I would now become confident, self-assured, and above all, in control. I even set to work assembling a new wardrobe that would correspond to my new image. A suede skirt, I remember thinking, was for some reason essential, and I scoured the city looking...
...have tried desperately to replace intuition with a rigorous scientific method. Percy believes his death blow to the Chomskians is his assertion that, by their own admission, the transformational model is not actually the mechanism we use to create sentences, and that such artifices as deep structure don't correspond to any of our intuitions about language...
...grudging for at least the next three years. Radcliffe's pool of applicants is still less than half the size of Harvard's, and the trial runs the two offices have made indicate that under Harvard-Radcliffe's version of equal access, the ratio of admissions will roughly correspond to the ratio of the applicant pools...