Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shredded Papers. Past and present FBI officials told TIME that some of the information came from the special agents in charge of several FBI field offices, who regularly dispatched reports to Hoover in sealed envelopes marked "personal and confidential." Hoover kept them in his private office, though duplicates of most...
It is still too early to gauge the effect of the price reductions, but the early returns are encouraging. The industry disclosed last week that during the latest ten-day sales period ending Jan. 20, Americans bought more than 130,000 cars. That was a decline of "only" 15% from...
The U.S.-Soviet trade agreement rejected by Moscow last week involved a remarkably strange piece of legislation. The enactment of the Trade Reform Act, after two years of haggling and deliberation, marked a rare moment when Congress not only dictated U.S. foreign policy but also tried to determine the domestic...
The extended truce of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's 26-day holiday cease-fire came to an end last week. It marked Northern Ireland's longest period of nonviolence since "the troubles" began five years ago. The truce also underscored 1) how even such a short period...
Arthur Schlesinger,honored historian that he is, has flown even further back on the wings of time, to a dark age when a small group of monks safeguarded the legacy of classical scholarship from the threatening onslaughts of vernacular literature. "In our own time the purity of language is under...