Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly. These days Sellers can most regularly be found on television, pitching for a major airline from behind a variety of disguises, so it is good to have him here in a comic role that is generous...
...collectively run some 60,000 miles every morning-4 miles per man (including officers) in at least 32 minutes. The division has good reason for keeping its men in top shape: it defends a 500-sq.-mi. area bestriding the Uijongbu Corridor, traditional invasion route to Seoul and a mere 15 miles from...
...shame when a patient must truthfully admit that he is perhaps appreciated and loved more by a mere nurse's aide than by his relatives? If nursing homes are "killer institutions," then all sons and daughters of lonely patients are guilty of premeditated murder...
State Elections. The crisis was compounded by the results of the Gujarat state election, which became known the day after Judge Sinha's decision. The Congress Party, which had won 140 of the 168 seats in the last election, dropped to a mere 75 in the 182-seat state legislature. Its principal rival, a five-party coalition known as the Janata (People's) Front won 87. That left the coalition short of a majority, however, and prospects were for a shaky, short-lived government that might well collapse before the end of the year...
Costly Plan. The President's initiatives are no substitute for a broad, congressionally approved program that would include mandatory conservation measures. This year, for example, the tariff increases will pare imports by a mere 100,000 bbl. per day, to 6.2 million bbl., according to the Administration's own figures. Yet the cost of the plan will be substantial. White House officials acknowledge that deregulation would eventually kick up the price of gasoline, residual oil used by heavy industry, diesel fuel burned by trucks and other petroleum products by 5? to 6? per gal. The increased tariff will...