Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, most Maine residents regarded the Indians' case as a trifle. But it began to seem a lot less trifling last October, when lawyers refused to certify some local bond issues because title to land in the localities involved was clouded by the Indian suit. The bonds are selling again, but some hostility persists in what some Down Easters describe as a "whiteneck" backlash. Says Maine's popular Republican Congressman William Cohen, who is anxious to run soon for either Senator or Governor: "It's not politically feasible to be liberal on this issue. The notion that...
...answer, clearly, is a lot. British Leyland was saved from bankruptcy only two years ago by a government takeover. Now the company, which should be using a $1.7 billion government grant for retooling to make much-needed new models, is dipping into the fund simply to meet current expenses...
...somewhat more complicated, to be sure, than anything contained in the wit and wisdom of Marabel Morgan, but Marabel's subsequent evolution, too, is part of the story. "I haven't had a bubble bath in years," she admits. "The costumes-well, we have had an awful lot of company recently, so I've fallen down on that." In other words, the advocate of domesticity has acquired what she probably was destined to have from the beginning, namely a career. And she enjoys that: "I should be a philosopher and walk across the country interviewing people...
Even now that millions of women have paid for her message, she is cheerfully unawed by her creation. Says she: "There's nothing new in Total Woman or Total Joy. A lot of self-help books say the same things, only in different ways." She is correspondingly dismayed at the criticism that she advocates tricks for the sake of getting husbands to provide "goodies." Says she: "The word I use for a wife is not subservient but submissive. One is involuntary. But if I do something because I want to, because it gives joy, I'm not being...
...denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original movie that gamely risks, in its more brutal moments, being mistaken for the very sort of thing it is criticizing. Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip?and misses its goal...