Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pugnacity for the duration of the campaign at least. He is speaking quietly and candidly about his own record and the unfinished business at hand. He has also managed to put the more emotional Procaccino on the defensive in some respects. The comptroller has had to spend a good deal of time explaining why he preferred not to debate on television; last week he finally accepted the challenge. He has had to deny repeatedly that he is racist. He has had to defend his emotionalism?he wept when announcing his candidacy?and replies that Moses, Jesus, Lou Gehrig...
With similar insensitivity, ABC publicized that its new situation comedy, The Brady Bunch, will deal with "the most difficult integration of them all, that of the sexes." In the premiere of the series, which is perhaps the most cynically commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
...comment of the evening was made in the discussion after the play. Someone had asked a chick from the Women's Liberation Front exactly what the goal of the Movement is. Do they want equality with men? "No," she said, "it would be pretty stupid to settle for a deal that lousy...
Another, more important, reason is that it is nearly impossible to change French universities from within. Private universities don't exist in France. The government strictly controls education. The students could and did make a lot of noise, but the Minister of Education turned the traditional deal...
...begin a more orderly process of developing answers to outstanding issues-through committees, the only means by which a legislative body of 500 men with limited time can provide coherent answers to complex and divisive questions. To provide an efficient division of labor, several ad?hoc committees should cach deal with one important issue and present its recommendations for action to the Faculty...