Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change through, but not before listening to some unusually sharp criticism. Many delegates opposed the idea of an officer's hanging on to power; others objected to having a president who would have to retire immediately after the 1976 bargaining and thus would not "have responsibility for the mess of pottage he sells us." Some delegates also noted privately that the union's younger members tend to see Woodcock (and other top U.A.W. officials) as being management-oriented. That may not coincide with the opinion of the auto executives, from whom Woodcock wrung an 11.6% wage in crease...
...Your office, when you took the job, was a graveyard for lawyers. You were stepping into a mess that one lawyer after another hadn't been able to cope with. Were you at all worried about what it would to your reputation...
Social freedom is on a par with academic freedom at the institute. The students charge that they have been discouraged from intermingling and conversing with the Chinese. Although some Chinese students attend the institute, they have separate classes and their own dormitory and mess hall. There are also limits on how much the foreign students can socialize with each other. Early on, an institute official decreed that relations between the sexes must be "solemn and legitimate." Men and women sleep in segregated dormitories, two to a room. To make sure things stay that way, the women's residence...
...could take a photograph of my ash can that would be just as revolting as anything you can get here in Harlem." No won der Adams' ideas about his art seem quite pickled in nostalgia to a generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams' work is criticized for being indifferent to the flow of historical time and documentary "relevance," a recognized exception being the photos he took of Japanese Americans persecuted in the anti-Nisei hysteria during World...
...President Richard M. Nixon has made it impossible for me to continue believing what he claims about himself in the Watergate mess...