Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Complete Consumer Book by Bess Myerson. The shopper who spends $9.95 for this book will discover that even consumer advocates can be guilty of false and misleading labeling: Myerson is by no means "complete." The 100 or so pages devoted to owning a house, for example, dispatch property insurance...
Tuggle's approach to his tale is refresh ingly hardheaded; he does not bother with psychological attitudinizing, superfluous subplots or forced comic relief. Once he has introduced us to his characters, as well as to Alcatraz's labyrinthal layout and elaborate security procedures, he unveils his puzzle: How...
Reasoned a senior Administration official: "Why should we hurt ourselves by stopping our efforts to enhance our now normal relationship with China? Let's not be so hysterical about this that we do things that endanger our interest." Said one Sino-Soviet expert: "Secretly, I revel in this sort...
Such reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful...
Across the past decade, the old baronies have vanished. First, new leagues began in football, basketball and hockey. That destroyed monopolies. Then athletes began to learn rudiments of individual and collective bargaining. Lawyers, agents and hardheaded union men took up their cause. Finally, courts asserted that former restrictions against free...