Word: levers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find Arnold the Man. It was obvious the guy had a tremendous ego, although this didn't bother Hercules, he had dealt with oceanic egos, he had one himself. He even found it appealing: here was a hero, a man who would move the world with a large enough lever and his own belief in himself. "I set a goal and I go after it...I'm not at all tense about it. I visualize it, I see it in front of me that it will happen, and then it's just a matter of motions, going through motions...
...made from corn or soybeans, but its cholesterol content is lower; it has 70% polyunsaturated fats, vs. about 55% for corn oil. Hunt-Wesson in September began national distribution of a flower oil named Sunlite. Procter & Gamble is selling a blend of flower and soybean oil called Puritan, and Lever Brothers is marketing Promise, a part-flower margarine...
This time around DA is again targeting the Democratic platform as a lever to speed "real social change in the U.S." Harrington disputes the common assumption that DA will be "playing the old game of drafting a fine program and then throwing it in the wastepaper basket the day after the Convention," arguing that the conventional wisdom doesn't hold for next year because "the roof is caving in on the American economy...
...most elections all you need to know to vote is how to pull a lever or scratch an X. Not so in Cambridge, where ability to count is required, and a master's degree in logic encouraged...
Shernoff says that the nonconfinement clause is only one lever that unscrupulous adjusters may use to squeeze customers out of their benefits. Another device is the common requirement that insured people fully disclose their medical histories. In one California case, a Shernoff client with a back injury had been denied coverage because she failed to report that she had rhinitis and amenorrhea. Rhinitis is the medical term for a runny nose; amenorrhea means that she had an erratic menstrual cycle. Shernoff settled that case...