Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council, with the aid of six Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) officials, 20 anti-nuclear demonstrators and Santa Claus, debated the dangers of low-level radioactive waste last night...
...bring this issue out into the open, though," Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who called for the meeting, said. "We are going to pursue this at every level to make sure that the testimony of these men is accurate," he added...
...places as diverse as Africa and North America proves he has struck a common chord that cuts across class and culture. It's impossible to know whether Marley's popularity in the United States is fed by appreciation or curiosity. The music, fortunately, can be enjoyed on either level...
...full employment" to be a 4% rate of unemployment, but a 5.5% rate. That means, compared with the past, the U.S. is prepared to accept 1.5 million more Americans out of work before Washington policymakers start pumping up the economy in an inflationary way to fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member is collecting a paycheck and can take up the slack. This is a reason...
These demons turn out to be not very amusing. Young Michael, it seems, was reared by a family that overstressed winning. He became so afraid of losing that he developed to near-genius level the ability to find excuses for not competing at all. So now Michael does not have to win the big race at the end. All he has to do is run it full out, and if you are actually wondering if he manages to do so, then you had better run right along to Running...