Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ACCIDENT, by Nicholas Mosley. This literary jigsaw puzzle about an Oxford philosophy don has its spellbinding moments, but some of the pieces are missing...
...British Union of Fascists), which is about an Oxford philosophy don, and which raises the art of the intellectual tease to the level of mild torture. There is no doubt that in Accident a fictional design of subtlety and distinction has been attempted. But it is a literary jigsaw puzzle with perhaps some extra pieces belonging to another design slipped...
...When this work is done, they take their findings to the company for comment-and usually hit so close that the company is impressed enough to cooperate. Says Hungarian-born Deputy Director Anthony de Jasay: "We fill in our tables until just a few elements are missing, like a jigsaw puzzle. The companies feel almost morally obliged to furnish the remaining pieces...
...Jigsaw Puzzle. For all its progress, Asia is a long way from such close bonds as those of Europe's Common Market. Poverty compels Asia's economic partners to put resource development, notably of the Mekong, ahead of tariff cutting and trade. In Asia's developing countries, per-capita income averages only $100 a year, agriculture ties up 71% of the labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing...
...budget is a jigsaw puzzle that only the President and a few others see whole before it is presented to the nation. Lyndon Johnson has made a practice of keeping the puzzle puzzling right up to the last minute: in past years, Administration aides leaked inflated budget totals in advance so that the final budget, even if a record, would look modest by comparison. Last week the White House announced that the budget for fiscal 1967 will probably be somewhere between $110 billion and $115 billion, a breach of the magic $100 billion figure and a much greater rise over...