Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well she might be reading from her new manuscript. The emphasis on style seems picky, but Trilling is no Emily Post. Social elitism, based on knowing which knife to use for pate, she said, is silly. When used properly style can ease both class and sexual distinctions. Manners let you act without awkwardness. They force people together. "Holding the door," she said, "at least makes you acknowledge that someone else exists...
Murphy dropped about ten yards behind the pack and stayed there until the four mile mark. "I figured I'd let someone else do the work," he said...
Harvard holds certificates in Continental despite its unrestrictive policy because the bank is not currently lending to the South African government, Siguler said. "Once we find that it is making loans, we'll let the investment mature or immediately sell it," he said...
...Let's forget Zimbabwe a minute and talk about divestment. Should Americans divest their holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa...
Many brokers and exchange workers stepped over or on demonstrators to get through; others crawled under sawhorse barricades or let police hoist them across the barriers...