Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same theme was sounded, several decibels higher, by Clay Smothers, a black Texas state representative: "I have enough civil rights to choke a hungry goat. I ask for public rights, Mr. Carter. I ask for victory over perverts of this country. I want a right to segregate my family from these misfits and perverts." A film was shown of Anita Bryant endorsing the pro-family movement, and Roger Redford of Arkansas explained that he had been a homosexual for 26 years until he was finally saved. "The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can deliver you from homosexuality...
With a cruising speed of 1,340 m.p.h., the Concorde whisks across the Atlantic in three hours and 25 minutes from London, five minutes longer from Paris, which is nearly three hours faster than subsonic travel. The fare is 20% higher than regular first class-and apparently well worth it to globetrotting business executives. The Concorde also does much to ease that bane of long-distance air travel, jet lag. Besides, said one investment banker: "We can leave London at 11:15 a.m., arrive in New York at 10 a.m. and be at work in Manhattan the same morning...
...subjects. ("Some Like It Hot" was about the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.) In this 1960 film an affable loser(Jack Lemmon)plays pim pin order to get a key to the executive washroom. Lemmon is perfect as the "schnook" who gets cornered into lending his apartment to philandering higher-ups in the Big New York Conglomerate in which he works. (Just a few years later, Lemmon, having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine is appropriately touching as the tough-tender waif that Lemmon falls for, and Fred MacMurray is menacing...
...current rate of inflation remains constant. University officials respond by citing the results of a survey, taken last spring, of wage rates offered by other colleges and universities in the northeast, including Harvard. The survey found that Yale's wages were on the average 25 per cent higher than those offered for similar jobs...
...women have their first successful season behind them, having amassed an 18-3 record last year in Kleinfelder's rookie season, but to find such success this year, the women will need to attain a higher level of play to match their new opponents...