Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As a crucial decision maker and a symbol of Arab petropower, Saudi Arabia's King Faisal is TIME'S Man of the Year. Throughout 1974, Faisal's actions about oil prices and related matters touched, in various degrees, the lives and pocketbooks of virtually every human being...
The change became dramatically apparent in 1974, a pivotal year that saw the decline of old powers, old alliances, old philosophies?and the rise of new ones. The West's belief in the inevitability of human progress and material growth was badly shaken as inflation spread oppressively across the world...
Looking for a bargain? Try Vincent Swaggi's store, where merchandise is stacked to the ceiling: household goods, toys, shoes, sweaters, suits, radios, electric toothbrushes, records, film, perfume, wigs, even ballet slippers. Ignore the department-store price marked on most items. Swaggi will give you "a real steal." But...
Hoping to brighten up their gray Christmas, many retailers stepped up their advertising and regretfully turned to pre-Christmas sales. New York's Saks Fifth Avenue department store has been offering creations bearing such labels as Pucci, Dior and Halston marked down by 50% or more. J.C. Penney near...
All three grow on the reader who is soon lost in comic-strip chronicles marked by great wit, suspense and true humor rising both from character and from a remarkably sophisticated view of the world. These four books variously send Tintin, Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers...