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...Ministry of Industry and Commerce, while MEC is the Ministry of Education and Culture, and MAC is a political action group called the Movimento Anticomunista. For slum clearance there is nothing quite so efficient as MUD (Democratic Urbanization Movement). And tax evaders must constantly watch out for the dread SFPRICFN, which is the Federal Service for Prevention and Repression of Infractions against the National Treasury...
...small fires that were easily brought under control. A year ago, with passenger traffic proving unprofitable, the Dutch owners sold the vessel to the Greek Line. The Greeks reoutfitted the ship from bow to stern and changed her name-which, in the superstitious lore of the sea, is a dread omen of danger...
...demonstrations last spring; but as the legislative process dragged on, the emotional fervor behind the bill waned and people began to have second thoughts. Extremist opposition in the South grew more virulent, ensuring the silence of all but a few moderates. Encouraged by fear-mongers, some Northerners began to dread what genuine civil rights might mean for the job market, property values, and their children's schools...
Ogilvy is still dread Scot enough to voice some stubborn convictions about the wrongs of his craft. He believes that billboard advertising should be abolished. And on the question of commercial television, Ogilvy is candid: "As a practitioner I know that television is the most potent advertising medium ever devised, and I make most of my living from it. But as a private person I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching it without commercial interruptions...
...lantern, Colette held court much as Proust did in his cork-lined room. Her blue eyes ringed with kohl, her curls carefully brushed over her immense forehead, she received friends sitting up in bed, nibbling garlic and sipping champagne. But she no longer wished to meet the young: "I dread them. It is in the course of nature for declining strength to be scared of up-and-coming new forces. The children who write me letters lay claim to great timidity. But it is for those of my age to feel timidity, almost to the point of painful intensity...