Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to come up with a new slogan to patch over gaps in our willpower." And looking ahead to the dangers that Gramm-Rudman may bring, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz says, "It is perhaps a little mindless, but it may be the only way out of the morass." All of which is another way of asking, If Gramm-Rudman is too arbitrary, what is going to get the Government off the road to bankruptcy? Oysters, anyone...
...Harris called the president's office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of last week. Each day the people in Bok's office told him that they could not find the letter, that it had been lost in the morass of paper in Mass Hall...
...world is a big bad morass of moral dilemmas. There are many oppressive countries on the globe, and Bok is afraid he may have to start analyzing investments in Russia. But the broadness of such an issue should not paralyze Harvard with fear. Few countries are as blatantly immoral as South Africa. And there are fewer situations where Harvard has such a chance to make a clear, effective moral stand...
...overtaxed individuals turn to professional help. Erica Chambre, 34, the personnel director for an oil and gas company in Oakland, extricated herself from a morass of debt by disciplined effort. When her borrowings reached $40,000 on top of a $65,000 mortgage, Chambre, who was earning $35,000 a year, decided that it was time to stop. "For four months I could hardly sleep," she recalled, "worrying about the trouble I was in." Her solution was to repay the loans by working seven-day weeks for more than two years and curtailing expenses. Gone now are the twice-yearly...
...complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing into...