Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilfields, treat soldiers with kindness, and the like. These were recorded in Persian on a cassette, then played over the phone to a headquarters in Qum, reported TIME Correspondent Sandy Burton from Paris. That cassette was then transcribed by followers who mimeographed it and distributed it in the form of flyers to Shi'ites in that city. At the same time, the messages were played over telephone lines to some 9,000 mosques all over Iran, where they were similarly recorded, transcribed and distributed. So speedy was this transmission, says one person who worked on it, that "a phone...
...meritocracy, they lie about education. With the rate at which job candidates are now fibbing on résumés and faking sheepskins, graduate schools and companies face detective work almost every time they see an application. Many companies, in fact, have printed up a standard form for checking out applicant credentials. Harvard College, for instance, receives 2,000 queries a year. The Harvard Business School gets about 8,000. Checking up on about 12,000 inquiries a year, U.C.L.A. finds two or three frauds a week. For its part, Yale has accumulated a file...
...remote towns. A new truckers' lobby called ACT (for Assure Competitive Transportation) has circulated petitions calling for O'Neal's resignation, a demand that Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons echoed in a letter to President Carter in mid-January. But Wall Street seems persuaded that some form of deregulation is inevitable-many once high-rolling trucking stocks have fallen sharply-and indeed the American Trucking Association is defensively drafting its own, as yet extremely vague, deregulation plan...
...past two years more women than men have taken up some form of exercise for the first time...
...rise, but a grumbling resistance to the trend is also digging in. The pollster offers a carrot of sorts to the anti-jogging, antisports crowd: the psychological benefits of exercise are so obvious, he asserts, that many troubled, chair-bound Americans may wish to take it up as a form of therapy...