Word: franticness
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...great names in British journalism are in danger of disappearing. Faced with strong competition from Thomson's Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, the Astor-owned Observer is given only a marginal chance to survive, as is the daily Guardian, which this week celebrates its 150th anniversary. Despite frantic efforts to revitalize its formula, the venerable London Times ran $2,400,000 in the red last year, bringing Lord Thomson's total losses since he bought the paper to a reported $17 million. "There should be only four national newspapers in Britain today," he says. "It doesn...
With 800 meters to go, the Navy lead was a full length. A frantic Harvard sprint cut this margin in half by the finish, as Navy continued to understroke both opponents...
...detrimental effect on society. It is degrading, demeaning and depersonalizing and makes fun of marriage, fidelity, home life, love and respect. We are surrounded by obscenities in our everyday lives by advertisements stressing virility and sex appeal. How many people are unhappy because they cannot keep up with the frantic pace that books and current movies tell us is "normal" in our sex lives? What ever happened to the idea of loving one person and keeping faithful to one's ideals...
...Spock confessed that he was disappointed at how easily some of them give up. "They're much quicker to arrive at a radical analysis of things but then they shrug their shoulders and say 'oh I tried that and it didn't work,' " he said. "It drives me absolutely frantic," he added...
...local aid will absorb $200 million more in state fiscal resources. At the same time, the government is facing a revenue gap of $125 million. In ???? with these ??? ??? ??? ?? antipoverty program would mean raising an additional $500 million from a combination of sales, income, and miscellaneous taxes. A nasty and frantic round of "tax politics" would have to precede any high-minded reign of "poverty politics...