Word: mering
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...rewards of the new class are not necessarily monetary. The manager of a Soviet chemical plant or the director of a scientific research institute earns about 508 rubles ($726) a month-while President Leonid Brezhnev makes an estimated 2,900 rubles ($4,150). These are mere pittances compared with the $250,000 annual salaries of Jimmy Carter and the chief executive officer of the average large U.S. corporation. But because Marxist-Leninist societies are short of goods, a comfortable life-style depends less on money than on privileged access to scarce materials and services. In capitalist or mixed economies...
Glass art may in the past have been stifled by its traditions: Gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, art nouveau, Tiffany, art deco. Today artists and artisans, students and professionals are creating a distinctively American form, moving away from mere decoration and drawing eclectically from the other visual arts. As Artist-Editor Fred Abrams writes in Glass magazine, a journal for artists and craftsmen: "Glass is the most beautiful and magical art medium in the world,... and we have only begun to explore its possibilities and potential." To which its admirers and practitioners can only add amen, translucent tomorrows and "gret joye...
RECENT SURVEYS REVEAL that each American family spends an average of six hours per night mesmerized by a television set, passively absorbing the fictional universe of stagnant soaps and muddled mysteries. Still, this mere spectator's role cannot satisfy the modern imagination, so it is easy to understand the surging popularity of Citizens' Band (CB) radio, which solicits audience participation in electronic media. A CB operator finds the radio a suitable stage for the enactment of daydreams. Serving as an outlet for the hidden personalities of its users, CB becomes either a creative or a destructive tool for individual fantasies...
...even harder, of course, to fire anyone. Consider that out of 19,000 federal employees discharged last year, a mere 200 were dismissed for not doing their work properly. The rest were guilty of some serious infraction, such as not showing up for work, being drunk on the job or striking a superior. Before a manager can fire a worker who does not do his job effectively, he must supply a written explanation to the individual 30 days ahead of time. The employee may appeal the firing up the chain of command. If the decision is upheld, he can demand...
Despite some strong individual performances, the Harvard track team wound up this weekend's IC4A track meet at Princeton yesterday in an unspectacular seventh place. The Crimson tallied a mere eight points as Villanova wound up with 64, to take the overall championship...