Word: finer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those other presidential contenders whose solution to impending nuclear war or Chrysler's laying off 100,000 workers is a plea for renewed trust in the American system. Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), the would-be Democratic front-runner, could set an example in this movement much finer than he has in the last few years, with ceaseless calls for shoring up the "defense" system, not to mention the Saigon government. And President Ford, Jackson's Republican counterpart, could help achieve his expressed desire to Win against inflation by withdrawing from the race as well--in fact, he could...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has taken works from its permanent collection and mounted two of the summer's finer print shows. "Contemporaries of Degas," being shown in conjunction with the Museum's highly publicized Degas exhibit, displays lithographs, etchings and a few oil paintings by artists who explored the same subject matter as Degas or who were greatly influenced by the "reluctant impressionist." Prints by Toulous-Lautrec, Signac, Vuillard and Daumier are organized around the themes of women, nightlife, the circus--subjects which have rarely if ever been treated with as much insight and relish as in the works...
...same tedious campaign rally day after day, she would answer: "I'm always interested in the rallies, they're so different. Some are outside; some are inside. Some have old people; some have young people." All places she visited were fine and interesting, none ever finer or more interesting than another. She deflected questions with a wave of the hand and the words "You'll have to ask Dick about that...
Shareholder responsibility is a game where pressure is of the utmost importance, generally overshadowing the finer points of specific resolutions. The most important shareholder event of the year--Harvard's letter to Middle South Utilities calling for more pollution controls on an Arkansas power plant, the University's first stand on a non-proxy issue--came about largely as a result of pressure from Arkansas community groups and students here. Without that pressure the University could easily have ignored it. Students can also pressure the Harvard shareholder structure in its proxy votes; with pressure, after all, the University abstained...
...crystalline mineral extracted from a host rock, asbestos is incombustible, and is impervious to bacterial, organic or almost any other type of corrosion or decay. Endowed with the tensile strength of piano wire, the fiber is extremely flexible, spinnable and absorbant. It is so fine--about 2000 times finer than human hair--that once imbedded in the lung tissue, a fiber of asbestos will remain there indefinitely, unless it happened to have settled high enough in the respiratory tract so that it could be removed via the mucous. If it is imbedded below this point, the body can neither remove...