Word: meres
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These experts also agree with the Administration's view that the Soviet Union still places détente among its highest priorities, partly as a diplomatic weapon in its rivalry with China (unable to match the Soviet military contribution, China has had to settle so far with mere pronouncements of support to the Arabs). Moreover, Brezhnev's whole leadership rests on his détente policy, and there is no sign of any serious second thought or new resistance to this policy within the Kremlin. The Soviet need for American food and other trade is still great...
Henry James, for one, felt guilty all his life for not following up his radically abolitionist principles with action. He allowed his extraordinary recollective powers to be more evocative than explicit. He made the South something magnificent and swashbuckling in his mind, only to discover that it was a mere shadow of its former self when he finally visited there after 50 years. The image of this pathetic South was more dramatic to him than anything else possibly could have been; he rejected Southern chauvinism and identified completely with Southern pain and defeat. In the end, Aaron sees...
Closing the Window. Meanwhile, some S and Ls, strapped for funds, have stopped making new mortgage loans altogether. They include Sun Federal in Portland, Maine's largest, and First Federal in Chicago, the biggest in Illinois. Others are keeping their mortgage windows open a mere crack by granting loans only to long-time depositors, and in some cases actually demanding that a home buyer maintain a savings-account balance equal to the size of the mortgage loan he seeks. The market is tightest in states like New York and Illinois, where usury laws keep mortgage-interest rates below...
...lineman or installer-even though they pay more than most women's jobs. (In Columbia, S.C., for example, repairmen make as much as $124 a week, v. $101.50 a week for an information operator.) Only 389 women were moved into such jobs in the second quarter, filling a mere 4.7% of the openings, v. a company goal...
...department contended that prying out confidential news sources is too high a price to pay. "We have supported the right of courts to the testimony of newsmen when its relevance and importance were plain," the department said. "We have never supported incursions into this sensitive area for the mere purpose of conducting fishing expeditions, and it is plain that that is all that is involved here...