Word: guys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, St. Paddy's Day makes the task a little easier. My uncle used to refer to March 17 as "a day when Irishmen of all nations get together to celebrate," and he had a point. So if the guy on the next stool over insists that the key to John Havelicek's success is his fine Irish blood, don't start to argue. Relax and drink up--today, everyone is an Honorary Irishman...
...With apologies to the 1977-78 Harvard Basketball squad and the Big Guy upstairs...
...socialism, which the party defines as "equality among all individuals and groups." Steeply progressive personal taxes (50% for a couple earning $30,000) have helped to level incomes. Says Christian Erlandsen, managing director of an Oslo auto parts firm: "After taxes the difference between me and the lowest-paid guy at this company is not very great. You can't look at just income; you must look at other values. We have our cabins, our spare time. What may be most important to me is my feeling of safety. I'm not thinking of crime as much...
...sort of extemporaneous. This was the first really close person that ever died for a lot of these people, and they didn't know quite how to deal with it. It was just an attempt to put it all in perspective. The fact that he was a great guy, but that he lived on the edge, and like a lot of these people who I had talked to said, he realized it was something you sort of bargain for a little bit. I said that Bob realized this was always a possibility, and that while it was a tragedy that...
...describes the older professional ski patrolmen he knows as "rural, crusty guys," and he doubts Bob could have long tolerated professional patrolling. "Bob was not a rural, middle-class type guy. He had very expensive tastes, he was very cosmopolitan. He loved good food and he knew a lot about good wine. It might be something that he could identify with as a goal, similar to the 'move out of the East Coast, go to Colorado, get back to nature' type thing. But he wouldn't have been happy in a rural environment, he liked too many big-city things...