Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties are clearly reflected in the latest polls. Last March a Harris survey gave the new President a resounding 75% rating on his ability to "inspire confidence." By late last month, that rating had plummeted to 50%. A nationwide NBC poll conducted last week was still more disapproving. A mere 46% of those questioned approved his performance, compared with 56% in June and 60% in February...
Appearing in court next morning, Mrs. Gandhi once more tormented her tormentors. Under Indian law, the court appearance is a mere formality. As police were using tear gas to break up demonstrations outside the courtroom, Mrs. Gandhi defiantly told the presiding magistrate that she would not ask for bail and preferred to remain in jail. Government lawyers hedged when the magistrate asked them, again and again: "What do you want? What exactly is your prayer?" The government was afraid to take the risk of jailing her, and after 80 minutes of courtroom waffling, the judge released...
John Hult, a former Rand Corp. scientist who heads his own firm, has a similar idea. He would like to wrap an Antarctic berg, mummy-fashion, in thick plastic and haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would...
Fast's mellowing is even reflected in his historical fiction. His last novel before The Immigrants was The Hessian, which he cites as his best. It is not a story of heroes and fighters at all, but the tale of how a Hessian mercenary in the Revolutionary War, a mere boy, is tracked down, captured, tried and hung. It is a story of pointlessness and tragedy. The boy who dies is no menace; he is simply pathetic. The people who execute him are not shapers of history; they are its victims...
...look at a thesis as a challenge," says Karen Baum '78, who will be writing about the criteria by which people judge restaurants. As a freshman, she says, "the mere thought of writing a 60 page paper really blew me away"--but now, after becoming less concerned with the intricacies of grammer and more concerned with "working thoughts out on paper," she says she is looking forward to doing the thesis, as a learning experience. (But, she adds, "that's not to say I don't think I'll have weeks of pure hell, come March...