Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience. Only the World Cup soccer final, a few heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract a bigger one-day sports audience. All are events of worldwide interest, steeped in tradition. The Super Bowl spectacle pivots around a grand, but parochial American passion. It was born a mere decade ago, the child of technology, a unique combination of slick and schlock with no history at all save a profound connection to a taproot of the human psyche...
...closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high that the county welfare office had to call for emergency clerical help from Sacramento...
...academic vigilantism characterized by misrepresentation, systematic distortion and personal attack. Wilson's views, if correct and rigorously applied, are the antithesis of socialism, Communism and the welfare state; they indicate clearly, if correct, that our human faults and injustices are the product of biological evolution and that a mere change of environment is not going to correct anything. We must recognize our genetic heritage and work to overcome the weaknesses of this biological inheritance...
...part of an "equitable solution" under which workers could henceforth be compelled to pay dues but not to join unions. (Carter has not called for the repeal of 14B but has said he would sign a repeal if passed by Congress.) Marshall also denounced existing job-training programs as mere "income maintenance plans that leave participants with no skills." He would replace them with apprentice programs, particularly for women and minority groups...
...fifth of Johnny Walker Black can cost $25.50 (v. $11.90 in Manhattan); imported Italian shoes for men easily run to $110. Common Market members also charge that their efforts to sell to Japan are hamstrung by nontariff barriers to trade. For example, European auto manufacturers (who export a mere 26,000 cars to Japan, v. the 400,000 the Japanese ship to the Nine) complain about a cumbersome maze of customs procedures, pollution and safey requirements, and baffling testing regulations...