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Social Cost. A less fanciful proposal would meld rationing and taxes...
...collections in Paris were the purest couture I've seen in years," notes Ohrbach's Sydney Gittler. "The workmanship is so perfect that I'll have difficulty having it done in the U.S." Still smarting from their unhappy attempts to meld high fashion with ready-to-wear, designers seemed completely unbothered by the prospect of greater exclusivity. "We have models here with thick necks or broad hips or short legs," says Esparza. "I hide these faults with my clothes. That is couture, and that is why ready-to-wear can never take its place...
...example of Protestant church democracy. Last fall a group of about 100 conservative ministers and laymen began meeting monthly in the Presbyterian headquarters city of Philadelphia to discuss denominational issues. In April they drafted an anti-COCU motion arguing, among other things, that the union plan was trying to meld "irreconcilable viewpoints" among the participating churches and was threatening the self-determination of local congregations. One obvious problem: some of the churches adhere to historic creeds specifying their beliefs; others...
...real problem lies in the mix of styles Malle has tried to meld into a single film. Lurking beneath the charm of this comedy is a very definite potential for evil that creates tension without every surfacing. We like the Chevaliers because they're so resilient that they never really hurt each other; but given the chance (in another film, say) it wouldn't take much twisting to make some of them very cruel...
From the beginning the units were very difficult to meld together. The 196th, for example, considered itself the 196th Brigade, and its men did not even want to take off their old shoulder patches. Size alone-at times as many as 24,000 men-made the division unwieldy, and it had some of the worst soldiers in the Army...