Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OKUN: Federal pay is a real scary area now, given the attitude in Congress and the pressures of the unions. Let us take another simple thing like fair trade. If we could repeal the fair-trade laws that allow some manufacturers to fix retail prices, that action alone could reduce the consumer price index by an estimated three-tenths of 1%. Then there are oil imports and the whole range of policies regarding agriculture, which have important price implications...
...dating each ice layer like growth rings on a tree, the scientists have been able to use the oxygen-isotope ratio to chart yearly variations in weather to depths of 300 ft. Beyond that level, the annual record becomes blurred. But it is still clear enough to let scientists distinguish broad climatological trends. Analysis of the layers showed, for example, that the earth's last ice age began some 70,000 years ago and did not end until about 10,000 years ago. The investigators also made some long-range forecasts. Projecting the established weather pattern, they predicted that...
...forced himself to show a Dutchman's overt hatred of Germans, and to feel indifference toward Jews (as Jakov Lind he had despised, in the way a boy despises dull relatives, the Jews who let themselves be freighted off to concentration camps). Because Dutch laborers do not write, he stopped his habitual scribbling. "Writing was something I dreamed to do again in peacetime, something beautiful and pleasant that will only occur when one is allowed to live again. Jan Overbeek is a ghost, a shadow, a piece of printed paper with a fingerprint and a signature . . . 'I wish...
...finally were picked up by a truck driver who had just delivered 35 gallons of onion soup from New York City to Boston. He let off Adam in Worcester and took me as far as a Howard Johnson's somewhere in western Massachusetts...
...cheerleaders were great. They even rhymed-Kathy, Sharon. Alice, and Karen. They're all in the same sorority. Kathy told me about her school's SDS chapter, which is trying to kick fraternities, sororities, and football off campus. She couldn't understand why SDS wouldn't let other people do what they want. I'll take a cheerleader over a radical any day: for one thing. "Hold that line!" is always much better synchronized than...