Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson was frank about his limits of power. To criticism that he was an accommodator rather than a leader, he replied: "Any fool can have a confrontation. You can press at the wrong time and get the wrong answer. Or you can work on people. You've got to have a sense of timing...
...with liberal-arts majors and impart to them a feeling for the "real world." Boston's Northeastern University has long been famous for its "coop" system under which students for five years alternate course work and full-time employment, on the road to a B.A. Career Services Director Frank Heuston boasts that 77% of Northeastern graduates are placed in jobs related to their skills...
Although no one pointed out that contradiction, witnesses brought up other problems. Frank Morris, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, noted that many economists believe unemployment cannot be pushed below 4.5% without sharply boosting inflation.* But inflation was virtually unmentioned. Main reason: as the bill's more candid supporters admit, it would not be effective without wage and price controls-but they are anathema to labor unions. Significantly, Sar Levitan, director of the Center for Manpower Policy Studies at George Washington University, estimated at a previous hearing that to reach 3% unemployment in four years, national output...
...girl with the switchblade thin elbows sticking out of a white shirt? Coat slung over her shoulder? Pale translucent cheekbones? Suspenders, providing that hint of a man's outfit? That casual elegance of the working man with sleeves rolled up--a takeoff on the cover of an early Frank Sinatra album? Coal black hair? The picture is all still, the energy curiously becalmed. A woman reed thin, when quiet just a sparkler in storage, but when she begins to sing or yell it's Bastille Day and all the pecan shops in Georgia have contributed M-80 cherry bombs...
...complex scoring system, devised by Frank Kulash and Neal Fenty, is based on the method for tallying a cross country meet. The highest game in the match is worth twelve points, with each successively lower game awarded one less point...