Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Money. Recent polls show a marked rise in consumer confidence, and because he has both new optimism and more money, the consumer is beginning to spend strongly. One consequence is that even the two sickest major industries-autos and housing-are reflecting the first faint blush of recovery. Housing...
Your 1776 issue seems to perpetuate the myth that the British were our enemies in our country's early history. In reality, however, we were a British colony about as long as we have been an independent nation. During that entire period, only the final decade was marked by...
Standing stiffly on the flag-draped dais in Mexico City's Olympic Gymnasium was a small platoon of male bigwigs, including United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Mexican President Luis Echeverria and various other officials. Down on the floor, masses of women draped in saris, ao-dais and other...
Milne wears his rue with a certain deference. Most of his revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to...
Financed with plastic-coated petrodollars marked IN OIL WE TRUST, the player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when...