Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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France so far is leading the export race, showing marked ability to sell "product-in-hand" plants-highly automated factories already functioning with trained personnel. Premier Jacques Chirac recently agreed in principle on more than $6 billion worth of contracts in Iran: a subway for Tehran, a steel mill, an...
Mr. Ferrara speaks of his fears about "...freedom from aggression" and acts of force originating in the power of government. For ten years, the Boston School Committee created socially based inequities in the distribution of children to schools of marked differences in quality. This is aggression, and a contemptible display...
WHEN THE ARMED Forces Movement led the coup last April 25 that ousted Premier Marcello Caetano and marked the end of 46 years of fascist rule in Portugal, the prospects for a fire Portugal looked good. At the time, General Antonio de Spinola disbanded the terrorist secret police, and promised...
Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign...
AFTER 50: THE MELLOWING. These years are marked by a softening of feelings and relationships, a tendency to avoid emotion-laden issues, a preoccupation with everyday joys, triumphs, irritations. Parents are no longer blamed for personal problems. There is little concern for either past or future.