Word: decentering
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...good, not only educating the people but also making them better citizens. Such patronage helped ensure that our cultural plate would overflow with options, as it still does. Although rock and country dominate radio airwaves, listeners in most cities can tune in a variety of other music, including classical. Decent bookstores stock James Joyce's Ulysses somewhere along with Stephen King's Insomnia...
...over again could support himself and his family quite nicely in the postwar years, a true innovator like Taylor had to support himself by odd jobs--he sold everything from records to deli sandwiches. However, he had predicted early on that he would eventually earn the salary of a decent chamber musician. By the 1970s, with growing recognition in Europe and Japan, this prediction finally came true...
...like desperate showing-off."BOOKS . . . A PRIVATE VIEW (Random House; 242 pages; $23): This wise and funny novel is about love between two people with very little in common: a woman filled with flaky California-isms (adept as she is in Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Color Counseling) and a decent and honest -- but bland -- man. The book, says Time critic Martha Duffy, is a "welcome surprise." In the end, the duo part, but Brookner's "triumph lies in the story's resolution...
Everything was not perfect for the visitors in the first half, but a lead is a lead. The shooting was decent, and the defense stopped Dartmouth pretty well when it wasn't fouling...
...more than a lack of morals, as claimed by critics, it is the declining number of decent-wage jobs and an increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth that account for the pervasiveness, persistence and growth of poverty. "For the first time," says Northwestern University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less...