Word: leveler
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Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year...
...most important parts. They are to phase out domestic oil price controls beginning in June, and to bring in a "windfall profits" tax. Scrapping controls will allow U.S. oil prices, which average about $9.45 per bbl., to rise during the next two years to the cartel-set world level, which already stands at a minimum of $14.55 and is certain to climb still higher. The oil companies would get an extra $6.5 billion in earnings annually from decontrol, but about half of the money would be taxed away. The Government would use much of the tax revenues to help industry...
Homosexuals, who do not have the burden of deciphering the opposite sex, generally communicate better. Committed, attached homosexuals are less preoccupied with orgasm than married heterosexuals, and more aware of the exact level of their partners' sexual excitement. And single gays did better than single straights. Masters and Johnson found the same patterns among the am-bisexuals: they acted like homosexuals when they were with homosexuals (e.g., more communication) and like heterosexuals while making heterosexual love (e.g., an assumption that the male should take the lead). To Masters and Johnson, this is clearly a result of "cultural influence" -ambisexuals pick...
...said she frequently found that women are not chosen for upper level positions at their jobs no matter how long they work. "We're simply around to break in the boss," she added...
...student uprising of the '60s took place at two levels. At the same time The Crimson was editorializing against American involvement in Vietnam, it was blasting a College parietal system that restricted the hours and the terms of women's visits to Harvard men's rooms. When University Hall was occupied ten years ago, strikers and reactionaries alike had to wear coats and ties to dinner if they expected to be served, and all women lived at the Quad. Much of the business of the College in the mid-'60s was conducted at black-tie dinners held once a month...