Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the U.S., politicians scramble to join the tax revolt...
...highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...
...Bruno, her well-to do executive husband, will some day leave her, so she throws him out on the spot. Then she takes long walks through nearby woods, through an unnamed West German city and through the halls and rooms of her rented house. A friend asks her to join what seems to be a women's consciousness-raising group, but Marianne does not. She works at a translation of a French book about a woman trying to achieve independence; if there is a message here for Marianne, she does not get it. Friends, relatives and casual acquaintances gather...
Added to these oddities is dialogue that frequently sounds like a parody of existential maundering. Marianne talks to her father: "Does the time still hang as heavy on your hands as when you were young?" One of her friends approaches a stranger and remarks, "Why don't you join a political party?" By all rights, posturing or off-center exchanges such as these should make a mockery of the whole enterprise...
...industrial countries should also join with the poor lands in agreements to stabilize the prices of raw materials such as copper, coffee, tin, bauxite and manganese. Partners in these agreements would set up common funds to buy and stockpile commodities when prices plunge, sell off the stocks when shortages send prices soaring...