Word: maxims
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...into rock 'n' roll," he explained, "is because I couldn't get anybody to play the classical music that I wrote." During a career that spanned three decades, Zappa never pretended or wanted to be anything else. On the first Mothers' album, 1966's Freak Out!, he quoted the maxim of his hero, the '20s avant-gardist Edgard Varese: "The present-day composer refuses to die." They were words he lived...
Gale grew up in an era when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams...
...running away because I'm in dire straits. I have a two-room apartment in Novosibirsk for my wife and kids," he says. "I have skills and a job. I can make a living." Gently, he arranges the family's bags so that his wife Victoria and their son Maxim, 2, can nap on them. "But I want no constraints on how I bring up my children. If I move to America, the degradation of this society will not affect them...
...Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...
Before the technological explosion, we could afford to give almost every patient the best available care. But as the per capita consumption of health care reaches and exceeds $5,000 per year, current behavior will no longer be feasible. The new maxim of the health care industry will be economy: the challenge of making the best use of scarce resources...