Word: fabrication
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...wrong. He admits that he did not realize that corruption was as deep rooted and widespread as it is. But he now thinks that Iran's upheavals were inevitable. Money was pouring in, he was trying to modernize at a hectic pace, and the social, political and economic fabric was torn apart. The people had no chance to participate in the political process. The Shah means to give them that as soon as possible. But having made what he feels are substantial concessions over the past year, he now says that reforms must wait their turn...
...writers attempt to create one so the show will hang together. Lake and Levine try to show that the episodes are all steps toward Alice's becoming "a woman." There's just one catch--Alice is only ten years old and it stretches the audience's credulity and the fabric of the story to suggest that a character as innocent as Kitty Kean's Alice would so seriously consider such weighty topics...
...mysterious language to be mastered, an education to be pursued, a career to be won. So it has been with one of the nation's newest, yet at the same time oldest immigrant groups: the 19 million Hispanic Americans, who are now so much a part of the fabric of American life that the correspondents reporting this week's cover story found their most difficult job was simply knowing where to begin...
...name it, I've won it," says the seventyish lady in silver harlequins as she tugs at her champagne-colored, pixie-style wig and smoothes the fabric of her hot-pink shift. Mrs. Diane Haley is standing in the kitchen of her tropical green bungalow in Clearwater, Fla., surrounded by prizes: brown vinyl reclining chairs, rattan porch furniture, a turquoise side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, a hairy purple stuffed dog, a pair of TV sets-stacked one atop the other-two imitation art nouveau lamps. An avocado-colored Ford Maverick Grabber parked in the driveway and the gold-patterned...
...A.B.A. Consultant Philip Murphy, "because individuals with rights assert them rather than sleep on them." If most citizens are educated about their rights and have private counsel to help them, predict Werner Pfennigstorf and Spencer Kimball of the American Bar Foundation, there will be "dramatic changes in the social fabric...