Word: crutches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, a massive "non-event." Commissions draw less attention from customers in strong markets, when heavy trading generates healthy incomes for brokers. More significant, Wall Street is tougher and more efficient than it was a few years ago, when poor market conditions heightened the dread of losing the crutch of fixed commissions. In the early '70s, for example, many sloppily managed firms were driven out of business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily shouldered daily trading...
...enjoy the practicing itself," Lefkowitz told me. "But practicing that much really doesn't mean anything. Sometimes it's a crutch to practice as much as I do. You think, 'I can just punch the clock, put in my time, and there's no way I can't make astounding progress.' What I'd really like to be able to do is say to myself, today I'll practice twice as hard for four or five hours, and tomorrow I won't practice at all. But if I miss one day, I panic. I feel incredibly guilty. There's this...
...blanket criticism of science fiction is to Sturgeon an "obverted obeisance," a childish act of disobedience that serves to confirm the authority science has gained. While Bova sees science fiction as the new mythology--the emotional crutch to soften the impact of science--Sturgeon finds it to be the scapegoat...
Faisal consults senior princes and tribal chiefs on important matters, but final decisions are still his own. Unlike neighboring Bahrain and Kuwait, which are experimenting with legislatures, Faisal has no parliament, which he considers to be the crutch of a weak ruler...
Gwynne's Big Daddy is a man of cutting cruelty, but he lacks the roguish animal magnetism of Burl Ives in the 1955 original. Dullea is much too nerveless as Brick; his crutch upstages him. Stalwart Kate Reid rates a special citation for her earthy, grieving, raging Big Mama. But it is Elizabeth Ashley, purring, clawing, fighting for her man, who gives the play a mesmeric, electrifying intensity. ∎ T.E.K...