Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fathers are all perceived as lonely. "Christmas, that's always a problem. You feel so guilty about the one you're not with." Fathers who in fact are not lonely are also a problem. "My father wants to marry this woman, and he takes her kids out for doughnuts on Sunday mornings. It really upsets my younger sister; he never did that with...
...Veterans Week. "You people ran a number on us," declared Robert Muller, 33, a former Marine lieutenant who lost the use of his legs in Viet Nam combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans of regarding G.I.s who fought in Indochina as "Lieut. Calley types, crazed psychos or dummies that couldn't find their way to Canada. That really hurts when you remember the pride...
...definitely do not sense such a trend. If such a trend existed, Jimmy Carter would not have been elected President, for instance. What I do sense is the fact that some Western industrial democracies are to some degree restless nowadays, which is only natural given the fact that almost all of them are under deep impact of the world economic crisis. It is only natural that the electorate in the first place holds its own government to be responsible for economic evils. Where you have conservative governments, this can lead to change toward a more liberal or progressive administration instead...
...S.A.T., has steadfastly tried to discredit cram schools, thus defending the S.A.T.'s objective infallibility. But the coaching schools, which also prepare students for the Law School Admissions Test (L.S.A.T.) and Graduate Record Examinations, have become more than a $10 million annual business. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection decided to investigate them. The immediate target was the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, a chain of 88 schools founded by Stanley Kaplan, 60, the son of a Brooklyn plumbing contractor who has been tutoring all his professional life. Kaplan...
...truth is that in both energy and the economy the deterioration has by now gone too far for the Administration to do much of anything. The cooling economy cannot easily be turned around-nor, in fact, should it be. Congressional enactment of mandatory wage and price controls remains a remote possibility if inflation shows another alarming burst as the economy winds down. But, short of that, recession seems about the only option still open to the Administration to curb the nation's crippling consumption of oil and to slow the price surge...