Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, Hays may earn his place in the record books by a mere 24 hours.Though a court-ordered delay is predicted, Texas authorities in Huntsville are scheduled to give a lethal injection the following day to convicted Killer Charles Milton, 30. Depending on reports from observers at both events, the needle may soon come under consideration as a means of execution for many of the 850 men and women now on the nation's death rows...
...result: 6,000 senior managers now earn the same amount as some 30,000 subordinates who reached the limit by annual cost of living increases. Unless the ceiling is lifted, within two years 135,000 federal employees will be bunched together at the top scale. Says Acting Comptroller General Milton J. Socolar: "This situation is absurd...
...games. Many readers were offended by Irving's mating of the truly tragic and grotesquely comic, by the car crash that kills little Walt and removes Michael Milton's penis, by Roberta Muldoon, the transsexual football player, and the Ellen Jamesians, the radical feminist group whose members cut out their tongues to protest rape. Among those with reservations was the author's mother. Says Frances Irving: "There are parts of Garp that are too explicit for me." Literary heroes like T.S. Garp and John Berry of Hotel New Hampshire challenge social dogmas and traditional sexual roles. Although...
Sowell's positions are anathema to many blacks, and he has few supporters among black scholars. Cornell Political Economist Manning Marable, for instance, dismisses him as an "ebony version of Milton Friedman." Indeed, Sowell studied under Nobel Prizewinner Friedman at Chicago, and many of his positions bear a free-market stamp: forced school busing is insulting and destructive to blacks as well as whites. Affirmative action and quotas, with their accompanying threat of antidiscrimination suits by those who do not win promotions, lead employers to hire only the safest risks-the most talented and credentialed members of minority groups...
...curse. For about half of all women of child-bearing age, menstruation is a monthly misery that causes intense physical and mental discomfort. In the U.S. alone, menstrual problems result in the loss of 140 million hours of work a year. Menstrual pain, says Pathologist Laurence Demers of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., "probably is the most common cause for absence of women from the work force...