Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price-support level was established at 13.5? per lb., and Bergland pledged to begin setting up the support program before the bill became...
...would limit California property taxes to 1% of the market value of all real estate, about one-third of current average rates. If approved by the voters on June 6-a strong possibility-the proposition would cost California officialdom about $7 billion in annual tax revenues at the present level. It would also make it harder to raise other revenues because it would require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to impose new taxes...
...entered it. People were spread out all along the side of the run, and there was a normal level of noise, except all of us were sitting together, pretty drunk, screaming our heads off. Now, we used to call Joe 'The Ranger,' and Patterson was always 'Tonto.' So these people thought we were nuts, because we were yelling for the Ranger and Tonto...
...which the CB substitutes for drab reality. By showing the murky side of CB broadcasts, Demme implicitly criticizes an American ideology which necessitates the use of CB as an outlet for frustration and loneliness. Too bad Demme turns tragedy into melodrama so that his film succeeds only on the level of frivolous entertainment...
...prospective spouse and gives the two devotees time to get acquainted. There is no courting, as in Western cultures. In fact, a couple may not know each other before the temple president formally introduces them. Members of the movement consider sex an animalistic act on the level of eating and sleeping. They say it interferes with spiritual development. Therefore sexual intercourse is only practiced for the sake of procreation...