Word: either
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another man sitting on Fisher's porch confirmed Carter's worry that his messages were not getting through to the people, that, as the President later told Camp David visitors, "they either turned off their television sets or went bowling." Fisher's friend told Carter that people had been concerned about his cancellation of his original speech, but Carter promptly asked, "Would you have listened if I had made the speech?" "He thought a long time," Carter recalled, "and he said, 'Well, I listened to your earlier speeches.' And I said, 'No, I want to know if you would have...
Israeli Novelist Amos Oz has written of his people that their demand is absolute: "Either they have the best country in the world, the purest, the fulfillment of the highest moral standards, or else there is total disillusionment. Paradoxically, the outside world tends to view Israel with much the same perspective." Nowhere in the outside world are Israel and its actions subjected to greater scrutiny than in the U.S., home to 6 million Jews...
...start. He does the best job of any manager I've ever known at keeping 25 ballplayers relatively happy. He doesn't do it by being their friend; he does it by never, but never, taking anything personally and by making damn sure nobody else does either...
...with family financial help-partly as a hedge against further inflation. Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford...
Today, by that same standard, only 13% can afford new-home ownership and 38% of all buyers ignore that prudent rule. In recent years, the price of new housing has gone up much faster than either personal income or inflation. Consequently, many Americans have become "house poor...