Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, The Coup exhibits Updike's boundless sense of play. It allows him to entertain serious questions, without the turgidness of writers who solemnly subcribe to the high-moral fiber diet. Updike, a former "Talk of the Town" writer for The New Yorker, now moves out to cover the Talk of the World...
...attention to domestic problems that forged Ohira's upset victory. Until this year the L.D.P., which has held control of Japan's parliamentary government since it was formed in 1955, always picked its leader, who automatically becomes Premier, in a caucus of L.D.P. members in the Diet. In a party composed of strong and combative factions, this led to open vote buying, bribery and scandal. With former Premier Kakuei Tanaka now on trial in the Lockheed influence-peddling scandal, the L.D.P. decided to try to clean up its image as a party of feuding bosses and "black mist...
Ohira spent the World War II years in the Finance Ministry. Early in the 1950s he went into politics, eventually winning ten terms in the Diet. In 1960 he started his climb to power by moving from one ministry or Cabinet post to another in different L.D.P. governments. He has been Finance Minister and Minister of International Trade and Industry; he has also been Foreign Minister twice in different regimes. As Tanaka's Foreign Minister in 1972, he initiated the restoration of relations with Peking...
...been kind of a rotten year for film. I think we tend not to notice that because the most interesting movies playing around Cambridge are always old ones. But unless you live in New York, your Christmas movie diet may consist of a bunch of first and second-run movies that are mostly third-rate...
With the time gained by temporary protectionist measures and a subsistence diet of subsidies, Europe's threatened industries must accomplish a formidable task of rejuvenation. In West Germany, Strukturwandel (structural change) is constantly on the lips of industrialists, politicians, economists and union bosses. The term covers a variety of measures: a switch to profitable products, heavy investment in machinery, "rationalization," or reduction of labor forces where warranted, the retraining of surplus workers, even a shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others...