Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loves the work he is leaving. "Irritation and bad hours go with the job," he says with a smile. "If you think you made a difference, that's about as much satisfaction as you're going to get. It sounds sappy, but it makes up for a lot of hardship...
...initial fee as high as $500, plus up to $50 a year, buy "vine-rights"-two vines-and are entitled to twelve bottles of Benmarl wine annually The 900 members of the société also get first choice on all other Benmarl wines. A thirsty lot, they bought up 18,000 gal last year...
...thing most Americans are ready to confess is that while they are talking more openly about sex, they are increasingly confused about the moral values involved. Fully 68% agreed with the statement that "it's a lot better to have more openness about things like sex, homosexuality, premarital and extramarital relations." But 61% felt that "it's getting harder and harder to know what's right and what's wrong these days." Of these people, whom the Yankelovich survey categorized as "morally confused," the highest incidence occurred among those over 50 (65%) and, surprisingly, among those...
...become more liberal and 15% said they had become more conservative. It is difficult to measure such changes exactly, but even after ie process of liberalization, the majority seems to remain quite conservative. For example, 76% of the Yankelovich respondents supported the view that "permissiveness has led to a lot of things that are wrong with the country these days...
Psychologist Joyce Brothers agrees. "We're not as swinging a people as we think we are," she says. "People found that instant sex was about as satisfying as a sneeze. It takes a lot of time and trouble to have sex with a lot of people, and they found it wasn't even worth the scheduling...