Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps a war dance. The blood in my veins got hot. Did evolution inscribe this primitive melody and rhythym in my mind for some purpose of natural selection? Could it be possible that this responsive chord that I felt when I heard the degenerate chanting lay at the subconscious level or even at the genetic level? Slowly I was being drawn across the yard toward the source of the chanting. At thirty yards I still could not discern the words. As I approached, the band of freshmen seemed to open up so that I could enter the tribal circle...
...says one participant, are "mind-blowing" and incredibly legalistic. Three hours devoted to "the inadmissibility of acquisitions" phrase. Worried Americans take lunch on a patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown this U.S. proposal. "This is much better," he says. "I think we're getting somewhere." But Sadat tells Carter he still wants Palestinians...
...corruption at the GSA. Alto has described it as potentially "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government." But Civiletti told Chiles' subcommittee last week, "We do not know from the evidence gathered to date just how far the wrongdoing extends or whether at any level corruption is pervasive." Still, a report to the subcommittee from Comptroller General Elmer Staats estimated that fraudulent practices by bureaucrats in the GSA and other agencies is costing the Government anywhere from $2.5 billion to $25 billion a year. Complained Staats: "The Justice Department has not done enough...
...consumer. Competitive capital is less flexible however, and therefore more resistant than monopoly capital to increased corporate taxation. O'Connor argues that political tensions between the federal government and state and municiple governments reflect the split within the private sector as monopoly capital most strongly influences the executive level in opposition to competitive capital's foothold at the state and local levels...
...could still give people a surprise," Shaw said yesterday. "You just don't know what the competition will do to our level of play. But we can play with any team...