Word: far-out
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Builders and real estate brokers, scratching for business, are resorting to some far-out tactics to keep on selling houses. Realtors in the Jean Burgdorff firm in Summit, N.J., have taken out personal loans, pledging their own assets as collateral, and then relent the money on short terms to would-be house buyers who could not get mortgage financing elsewhere. Witkin Homes in Denver guarantees buyers who balk at today's high interest rates that they can refinance their mortgages once within the next three years if rates drop. Homewood Corp. of Columbus will give a buyer free paint...
...Adults. As a way of inspiring group members, T.A. therapists usually make "contracts" with them to achieve specific goals like giving up alcohol or such amorphous ones as "to get more OK," "to be able to give myself to others" or "to exercise more control over my Parent." One far-out leader shouts, "You're OK!" to his groups, and another asks members to clasp hands in a circle dance while singing Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead. Harris, who now does more teaching and training than therapy, usually begins his lectures with a few jokes to loosen things...
...Far-out and Far-off Solutions
Speculation about the far-out possibilities of science have always raised fascinating social implications. The new feeling is that so many of the obstables to what once was science fiction are now merely technical problems that will be solved in time. The everyday hygenics that have advanced the average lifespan 30 years in the last century pale beside the new methods of postponing death. Surgeons make daily use of ceramic and metal bones, synthetic arteries and electronic blood pressure regulators and bladder stimulators. Miraculous innovations that quickly have become almost commonplace suggest the great issudes medical ethics will be confronted...
...latest challenge to Congress, President Nixon has taken a far-out position on the question of Executive privilege. There is little in the law to support him-or not to support him. The Constitution makes no mention of the doctrine, which is a matter of tradition. The President argues that his Administration has been responsive to congressional probes, citing the fact that former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird testified before Congress 86 times. At the same time, Nixon has decreed that none of his 100-member White House staff will appear before Congress under any circumstances, now or ever. Once...