Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbyists have grown so able and strong that last week a mere handful of them was able to kill another bill, one of particular significance to them. It would have required the lobbyists to reveal who pays them, who they represent and what issues they have sought to shape...
Perhaps this trend shows a growing conviction among Americans that costly goods retain real value, while mere money depreciates. More likely it indicates that Americans are also emulating the wise and worldly Europeans, buying fewer goods, but goods that have more class and durability. Jay Plotkin, vice president of Craig's ready-to-wear chain in Houston, argues: "People are looking for more permanence in their selections, not just faddish clothes. Retailers call this 'investment dressing...
Some 500 companies are locked in a desperate recruiting battle for a severely limited number of workers. The more esoteric the specialty, the keener the competition. The mere mention of the name of an MOS (metal on silicon) engineer causes executive knees to bend. In personnel offices, linear engineers and microsystems programmers are spoken of in awed whispers, as if they were deities...
...said with evident satisfaction, "I was able to show that the tubes were absent." Lesley, he explained, had had an operation in 1970 to clear her blocked tubes?but with no success. After she was referred to Steptoe in 1976, he did an exploratory operation and found "there were mere remnants of her tubes." Because these remnants blocked his access to the ova, Steptoe removed them...
...June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them...