Word: feds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amazing that anyone would buy L.B.J.'s memoirs [Nov. 8] and thereby eat the same old sanctimonious bunk and lies that have already been fed us once during the past several years. Paying for this claptrap is like paying for the Viet Nam War, which is one long, idiotic history of throwing good money after...
...candidacy, hoping for the party's rightward constituency. More persuasively, Washington's Scoop Jackson also entered. "The No. 1 priority in this country," said Jackson, "must be to put people back to work." Then he drew the distance between himself and the party's left: "Most Americans are fed up with people who are fed up with America . . . This society is not a guilty, imperialist, oppressive society...
From a purely academic viewpoint, the results of so much force-fed learning are still uncertain. The slow pace of remedial work means that many of last year's freshmen are freshmen still. Discouragement over difficulties, or the need to help their families by seeking work, has caused 36% of the Open Admissions students to drop out. The figure is almost twice as high as that for CUNY students with conventional academic records, but is no worse than the national average. More significant will be the end of the academic grace period, when the first students are flunked...
...those not willing to sign a check on the spot. Koscot recruiters have a maximum prod: a free flight to company headquarters in one of Turner's nine planes. On arrival they are fed, feted and shown a film of Turner's life story punctuated with shots of tropical beaches and expensive cars. After all that, there are few holdouts...
...lagoons often smell like rotten meat. In the words of one irate citizen, the odor is reminiscent of "pig manure." Even so, the smells are seasonal, and (to most people) bearable. But last summer's wet weather produced an unusually large beet crop-and the worst smells ever. Fed up, 100 townspeople have now formed S.M.E.L.L.S. (Someone Must Eliminate Libby Lagoon Smells...