Word: manifoldness
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...experts are suggesting another way for certain self-employed Swedes to cope: divorce. Swedish husbands, they advise, could divorce their wives, dispatch them abroad, then send them big tax-deductible allowances. Upon reaching retirement age, the couple could be joyfully reunited to enjoy both their savings and the manifold blessings of the welfare state...
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men; We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed...
Default supervised under a federal court referee could allow great flexibility and latitude in dealing with the city's manifold problems, said Meyer, who teaches graduate-level courses on urban economics and public financing in the Department of Economics and at the Business School...
Between the two major American-flag international airlines, the manifold woes of Pan American have captured most attention. But last week it became evident that Trans World Airlines is also in bad trouble. TWA announced that its losses have gone up, up and away: its deficit topped $88 million during the first five months of 1975-a record, and exactly double the loss during the same period a year ago. Simultaneously, President Forwood C. Wiser Jr.-nicknamed "Bud" by some associates and "Forward Charge" (because of his initials) by employees-quit, along with Marketing Vice President Blaine Cooke...
Gena Rowlands, who is Cassavetes's wife, dominates this uneven film. Her insanity really is a manifold personality: she moves from spasms of manic nervousness to chastened, hurt-animal despair, her foolish smiles rapidly become agonized searchings for approval. The director's over-long focuses on individual actors and his willingness to let them improvise, which made Husbands so tedious, here allows Rowlands at least to show everything she can do. Despite the prodigious exposure, she can't be gotten used to the way, say Susannah York could, in her portrait of madness in Images...