Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thus in the future, if the U.S. considers building a fertilizer plant or a research lab in a developing country, Washington will more carefully scrutinize what efforts that nation has taken to help itself. If the U.S. decides that the grant would simply go down the drain as a mere palliative because the recipient country was doing little to improve its food distribution or start a population control program, no help would be sent. This may be a brutal policy, but it is perhaps the only kind that can have any long-range impact. A triage approach could also demand...
...company plans temporary layoffs of 4,000 workers at a plant in Newark, Del.; G.M. has announced production cutbacks that will lay off 6,000 employees in four states. At week's end, G.M. announced that its third-quarter profits fell 94% below a year earlier, to a mere $16 million...
...performer is Georgina Spelvin, energetic heroine of The Devil in Miss Jones. The movie is a standard little immorality play about a shy girl running graphically amuck in her own hardcore, X-rated fantasies. At last count it had grossed more than $8 million. Spelvin was paid a mere $500 (about $33 per staged orgasm, by one attentive critic's calculation). After making the 1973 movie, she did other similar epics, and by last summer had fetched up in Maine doing straight summer-stock theater...
...sensation. Parapsychologists and others who believe in the existence of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition were jubilant; in their view, Nature had bestowed upon them the recognition and respectability that the scientific establishment has so long withheld. Some skeptics were dismayed; they felt the mere publication of the report in Nature would lend legitimacy to many of the hotly disputed tenets of parapsychology...
...mere suggestion that Harvard might "expand" never fails to arouse Vellucci's emotions and to provoke the ire of local tenant and neighborhood groups who fear the University will somehow infringe on their privacy. Several prominent Cambridge citizens interviewed recently demanded "greater sensitivity" from University officials who might be considering expansion in the next five to ten years...