Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet regime recognizes the transition of values because the regime finds it easier to manipulate the population by rewards in the form of occupational advancement, rather than using the less effective method of force...
...period costumes and props did a noble job tastefully and with great industry. But the long and intricate scene changes might be an indication that it is not such a good idea to do a heavy prop show in the round. Appropriate music might make the going a little less rough...
...away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds a warning through the words of one executive: "If you spend too much time finding out what your competitor is doing, you may be spending too little time developing newer products and processes of your own. You become less imaginative, less dynamic, less resourceful...
Around the World on ?5. Belle was a born courtesan, and she was proud of her profession. Her definition of the term owes less to Webster's dictionary ("a loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess...
Belle herself was less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count...