Word: employable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White are commendable. The lengthened school committee and city council terms will reduce the pressure on incumbents to constantly campaign. White's half-hearted recommendation to prohibit school committee candidates from soliciting funds from school department employees was quickly rejected by the city council. Squeezing the people you employ for donations is a routine practice of Boston politicians that the mayor himself has perfected. Last year former City Fire Commissioner James Kelly and two of his assistants were indicted for reportedly shaking down firemen for donations to White's '75 campaign. Despite the testimony of six allegedly victimized firemen, Kelly...
...gainful occupation? The answer is as obvious as the plot of an antique B movie: he rents a remote and gloomy castle and sets up shop as a master criminal, abducting the professor-proprietor of a doomsday machine and forcing him-he has this beautiful daughter, you see-to employ the weapon as an instrument with which to blackmail the world. It is a measure of his madness that all he wants in return for not using the machine is Clouseau's life...
Foiled Again. Unlike antigovernment publishers in some other countries, Goenka, 73, and Irani, 46, cannot employ their most strategic weapons, their newspapers. The Express and the States man (circ. 198,000) are far less servile than most Indian dailies, but Gandhi's press restrictions forbid the printing of anything openly critical of her regime. As a result, Goenka and Irani have turned to India's still largely independent judiciary for help. So far, they have at least thwarted the government's apparent objective: to gain control of the papers or put them out of business...
...letter immediately hints at the subtle but inflammatory language it will employ to continue its audience of Harvard's moral wantonness. Ms. Fraser refers to the "miserably impoverished lives of the workers and peasants of South Korea," and to the Park regime's supposed repression of South Korean dissidents. Besides relying on the intentionally vague but emotionally arousing word "regime," this statement clarifies neither the living conditions of South Korean citizens nor the nature of their protests against the government. The letter then refers to "Harvard's long history as a bulwark of U.S. imperialism," another blatant example of verbal...
...reduce this uneasy dependence on nuclear weapons, NATO'S members- adopted in 1967 a strategy of "flexible response." This doctrine calls for NATO first to employ conventional forces against an invader. But if peace negotiations should fail or it appears that West Germany will be overrun, the American President would authorize the use of tactical and then perhaps strategic atomic arms...