Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration officials rebuffed the idea of a secret negotiating role for Kissinger. Although his path coincides suspiciously with the general itinerary of Jimmy Carter's Middle East Ambassador Robert Strauss, who will be visiting the area this week, the Administration's troubleshooter seemed unconcerned. "Henry even called me up to make sure his trip would not complicate things for us," said Strauss. "In no way does he intend to get involved in our work...
Though the decision stressed the importance of employers voluntarily setting up affirmative-action programs, it is likely that the government will use Weber to push for outright quota systems for minorities. Says Stanley Kaleczyc, associate general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This decision will give the EEOC more reason to press companies that have been laying back...
...rare reassertion of what used to be a traditional antitrust rule: that the mere existence of monopoly power does not make a big company culpable under the Sherman Act. In the classic interpretation of antitrust laws, says Washington Attorney Joe Sims, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's antitrust division, it is "at least logically possible that a firm could obtain a monopoly position by doing a better job than everybody else and not doing anything improper...
Marinetti, the leader of the futurists, who called himself the "caffeine of Europe," had such an impact in Russia that for decades afterward all advanced or difficult-looking art tended to be lumped, by officials, under the general title of "futurism"; and when Octobrist painters shouted the slogan, "In the name of our tomorrow, let us burn Raphael!" they were adopting Marinetti's febrile rhetoric against the art of the past. In those years, even Marc Chagall was the painter he would never be again: the delight in form rather than nostalgia as the stuff of poetry that pervades...
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