Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they hope for." As an historian, he is interested in the circumstances which have shaped their thoughts, and while his writing might not make good footnotes for an economic thesis on the plight of American minorities, his work is to be deservedly respected on a more humanistic and literary level...
...Yellow Pages gears itself to its audience in style and price as well as content. "We wrote it at a tenth to 12th grade reading level, which for many women is still too high," Daugherty says. Because Ms. Magazine and the Cabot Foundation underwrote the book, it may cost only 25 cents in places where welfare offices subsidize it further. Its readers' poverty dramatizes the need for such a book, Daugherty points...
...most convincing evidence of the universal benefits of an economy with both monopolies and competitive elements has been an increasing level of real income for all members of French society. But recent economic woes have caused many French-men to wonder--once again--whether their country should be entrusted to the hands of corporation leaders whose motivations are not perfectly synchronized with the collective good. Despite the cataclysmic warnings of prime minister Barre--author of the basic French textbook on economics--that a victory for the left would be the beginning of the end of economic solvency in France...
...comes as more good news for the team that learned recently that the athletic department will upgrade the status of women's ice hockey from "club sport" to Level II varsity next year...
...course, it is easy to exaggerate the significance of Reid's book. It is, at bottom, precisely what Reid meant it to be--a fast paced, mildly entertaining, enjoyable if not particularly penetrating thriller. On that level, it succeeds, if only because it is fun. On the level of social statement, as an analysis of a shift in basic cultural attitudes, Reid's own short-sightedness has sadly dictated that the book could not possibly succeed. But--like so much of Irish history--it is certainly an intriguing failure...