Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kroc has a personal fortune estimated at $500 million, and he marked his 70th birthday by giving away $9,000,000 worth of McDonald's stock to employees and another $7,500,000 to Chicago-area charities. Still, he wants more. "I expect money like you walk into a...
Harvard athletes were not the only ones who were threatening and bargaining this summer. Strikes and boycotts marked almost every week of the long hot summer. The liberal/radical checklist of boycotted products increased this summer by two items, bringing the total to six.
No Fanfare. China has now taken an important step toward filling those vacant ranks and putting its house in order. Last week Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, announced that the long-anticipated Tenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party-the first such gathering since 1969-had been held in Peking...
No matter how prepared Henry Kissinger may have been for that moment, it still stunned him. He had heard the rumors ever since last year's election: that Secretary of State William P. Rogers was ready to resign and that the President was thinking of making Kissinger his top...
A recent step in Wyeth's slow move away from anecdote is marked by a group of nudes. The model was a teenage girl named Siri Erickson, daughter of one of Wyeth's Finnish neighbors. "She had this immense vitality," says Wyeth. "I liked that directness. She'...