Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators to deter the protestors from having their say--including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed--reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp and ceremony over the substance of debate about meaningful issues. We sincerely hope that this reluctance to deal with reality will not continue to plague the school's administration...
...source said that "there will be every possible kind of non-germane amendment tacked on to the legislation" when H.R. 13778 goes to the House floor. "It will take a great deal of time to debate it," the source said, adding, "several members of the committee who voted to report it out will vote against it on the floor...
...Ulysses S. Grant, but that was before Oklahoma Congressman James Robert Jones started working the corridors. As the party's primary advocate of liberalized depreciation rules, Jones is at the fore of a neoconservative fiscal bandwagon that is straining the old free-spending coalitions of the New Deal and the Great Society. He is also one of the most effective and fastest rising members of Congress...
...humanitarian element of New Deal liberalism?the sense that society's unfortunate people ought to have some help?is very much a part of Baker's makeup. He tends to be thoroughly cynical about Big Business and nearly as disenchanted with Big Government and Big Labor. But his scope is vast...
...less individualistic than Tippett's style is his fidelity to the notion that composers should deal with big social and philosophical issues. From his anti-Nazi -oratorio, A Child of Our Time (1941), through such an instrumental-cwra-vocal work as his Symphony No. 3 (1972), he has charted the precarious survival of humanistic values in a violent, technological age. This concern has been central to his operas. The Midsummer Marriage (1952) plumbed myth and folklore in search of Jungian archetypes of spiritual wholeness...