Word: itâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MOBILITY. The mass exodus from rural to metropolitan areas, the increasingly common and frequent corporate transfer, the convenience of the automobile and the highway system built to accommodate it???all have contributed to a basic change in the character of the family. In the less complicated, less urbanized days, the average U.S. family was an "extended" or "kinship" family. This meant simply that the parents and their children were surrounded by relatives: in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins. If the relatives did not live within the same household, they were next door or down the block...
...ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it??as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television has been squandering the country's greatest natural resource: the young audience...
Even when the crisis abated, leaving Hussein still in power and the Syrians in retreat?just as Washington wanted it???there was a bitter aftertaste, a feeling that the U.S. was being pressured in a manner that required new toughness on its part. Nixon was able to leave for his trip to the Mediterranean and Europe as scheduled, but the journey took on fresh and weightier significance. Although concern about Soviet activities in the Middle East was genuine enough, the original decision to take the trip had contained elements of routine flag showing and pre-election headline grabbing...
...scared not to read Women's Wear. We are influenced by it???everybody in fashion is." So are some 10,000 other readers outside the industry, who are fascinated by WWD's piquant brew of gossip, profiles, trendy tips and incisive reviews. Eleanor Lambert, fashion's foremost publicist, is no particular fan of Women's Wear, and vice versa. Still, she feels that the paper "has the same impact as Walter Winchell once did. Winchell humanized the theater and let people see glimpses of human foible behind the scenes. Women's Wear has done the same to fashion. The press...
...Geological Survey feels that 50% of the line should be raised on stilts over the unstable ground. TAPS wants to bury 90% of the line where it will be safe from vandals. Besides, lifting the pipe on stilts costs about 25% to 60% more per mile than burying it???quite an increment on a $1.7 billion job. Details clearly have to be worked out. Ray Morris of the Federal Water Quality Administration describes the first plans that he saw last year: "We reviewed cartoons. That's what they were?cartoons...