Word: merely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority," says Ylvisaker, adding that the national feeling towards education is unfavorable. Current government spending problems and reordering of national priorities threaten, as one longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department of Education is no mere bureacratic reshuffling; the proposal and its advocates and opponents stretch from the inner sanctum of the Oval Office to Longfellow Hall at Harvard's Ed School...
...filled his speech with anecdotes, saying John Quincy Adams told his mother the "mere mention of the word attorney' incites the ire of others...
...growers constitute a mere one-half of 1% of all farm families, but propping up their prices last year cost taxpayers and consumers $2.6 billion in support payments and artificially high retail prices for the sweetener. The subsidy system has also created an ever growing Government stockpile of sugar, currently 193,000 tons, that now lies rotting in Florida and Texas warehouses...
...bloodletting scenes aside, Director Ridley Scott (The Duellists) settles for mere competence or even less. He signposts plot developments; the meanderings of the ship's pet cat too often precede the alien's attacks. Scott's allusions to other hit movies do not reflect well on his own. Alien features an all-knowing computer called Mother that is no match in humor or malevolence for Hal in 2001. Though the spaceship's interior recalls both 2001 and Star Wars, the audience never learns enough about its array of gadgetry or the overall layout of its various...
...Blame for heedless profligacy and bad planning should be addressed to corporate and Government leaders. But the responsibility is also shared by the larger population. Pogo's winsome cliché"We have met the enemy and he is us") is in full operation. Americans are not, after all, mere spectators in the drama of their own lives. They are, in historical terms, the most appallingly wasteful people who have ever lived; whole nations could live comfortably on their leftovers...