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...lower middle-class and working-class parents (presently only about 10% of the university population); an exam system that seems less designed to eliminate large numbers of students. For France's farmers, he will most likely propose some type of commodity support?even though the Common Market agreements frown on such practices...
...referee wears a worried frown Cause he can't start counting...
...between the U.S. and Thailand range from the conduct of U.S. soldiers to the conduct of the war against the Communists in Thailand's North and North east. Permissive in private but somewhat puritanical in public, the Thais resent freewheeling, free-spending American ways with women; they even frown on G.I.s holding hands with Thai girls in public. In an increasingly bitter campaign, the state-guided press is attacking Americans for consorting with "hired wives," siring "redhaired babies" and "deceiving girls and making them become prostitutes." Reflecting the public uproar, the Thai Cabinet two weeks ago ordered that...
Lane's fellow bankers may frown on such flamboyance, but they can only marvel at his accomplishments. In 21 years as president of Georgia's Citizens & Southern National Bank, he has certified himself not only as a leading innovator in U.S. banking, but also as Atlanta's most colorful civic leader. Under his command, Citizens & Southern has grown into the biggest bank (assets: $1.3 billion) in the Deep South, and Lane restlessly continues to expand its operations both inside Georgia and out. This week, for example, he plans to fly to the Caribbean for the formal opening...
...offended by this comparison) is that its pieces, though written by individuals, must be read to the rest of the organization for peer approval. Thus there is a tendency not to include anything strikingly different from what has been accepted before for fear that someone will frown and say, "I don't think that's funny." This is why most Lampoon pieces might just as well be written by the same, mildly amusing, but not really funny, person...