Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enormous as the increase in the youthful population has been, however, it is not big enough to explain the even greater rise in youthful criminality. James Q. Wilson suggests that the growth in the number of youths has increased the rate of youth crime: a "critical mass" of youngsters has...
Most serious of all is the fact that more than 1 million heavily armed, well-trained troops are arrayed on both sides of the DMZ: 625,000 in the South and 467,000 in the North (see map page 40). The Korean forces, combined with huge Soviet air and naval...
Among the left-wing Laborites who defied Wilson on the Market issue, Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn stands in greatest danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2...
Last year when things looked glum, Andy Warhol's gossip sheet Interview defined a new figure in society: the millionette. Now these "rich young brats" have succeeded café society, the jet set and the beautiful people as social pacesetters. To emulate them, however, requires a lot of loot...
Complex Causes. Lawyers, on the other hand, tend to attribute the increase to the physicians' own incompetence. "The reason why there are medical malpractice suits is that there is medical malpractice," says Robert Cartwright, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (A.T.L.A.). Both sides distrust the insurance...