Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that many probably over-looked was the makeup of the Crimson defense on Saturday. Three of the four starters--Bill Bennett, Don Gogel, and John Cosentino--are sophomore who were considered question marks earlier in the spring because of their inexperience on the varsity level...
...Pill's effect on insulin and carbohydrate (sugar and starch) metabolism is somewhat clearer. In many women, the blood-sugar level goes up, and with it the level of circulating insulin. There is no reason to believe that the Pill causes diabetes, but it may, in some cases, accelerate the onset of the disease. Then again, so does pregnancy...
...family of four). Some 2,000,000 families would be excused from taxes altogether. Above the poverty line, low-income persons and families would pay taxes at reduced rates. A family of four would begin paying taxes only at the $3,500-a-year income level, instead of at $3,000 under the present law; even then, it would not pay the full tax rate until its income reached $4,500 a year. By Treasury estimate, such relief would save low-income taxpayers about $700 million a year...
...fire for several months." Several special circumstances, moreover, contributed to the March price increases. One was the fact that high interest rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year, rebounded sharply to their former levels. Food rose by 0.4% and clothing by 0.6%. Higher prices did not deter shoppers from buying spring fashions; March sales in the apparel industry rose 14% above their level of a year earlier...
GODARD HAS the uncanny ability of fusing the cosmic with the mundane. Almost every action has some larger importance. He appeals to his viewers on the level of their emotions. He films with his instincts. One comes away from Pierrot either emotionally satisfied or emotionally jarred, but either way exhausted, and in this sense Godard is successful...