Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly before dawn, the seven young activists slipped from their blacked-out launch and swam the half-mile to shore, pushing rubber dinghies laden with supplies. Tall, muscular and bronzed, they looked like beachcombers, except for wrist, ankle and head bands plaited from the leaves of ti plants, which are...
Frigid Sorties. North relies on read-outs from on-board computers and the advice of two additional helmsmen -one for upwind legs, another for downwind-in devising racing strategy. Says North: "I do things more by what seems to be right by testing and not by how it feels. I...
In marked contrast to the encouraging results of President Carter's cautious domestic economic efforts, White House policy on the international front has been a growing source for grumbling. Last week disagreement with the Administration's foreign economic policy flared again in the wake of two developments: the...
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has been rating U.S.-made air conditioners, using the Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER), since 1974. On a scale advancing from a poor five to an excellent eleven, the EER evaluates the air conditioner's ability to produce the largest amount of cooling with...
What then of public financing for abortions? Should citizens have to pay for an operation they find morally repugnant? A few years ago, stores sold anihilistically spirited black box: when one pushed a button on its side, the box whirred and opened, a hand appeared from under a lid-and...