Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach she does not move, more like a mannequin than a model. But you can tell that she sees you, watches you. Sizing you up. Plugging you into the categories--do you come to leer or just to look...
...will probably sell the Chinese $700 million worth of products in all this year, mainly wheat, cotton and soybeans. To pay for some of their imports, the Chinese have devised "compensation trade" schemes, buying machinery with the products that will eventually roll off assembly lines. In a move that is heretical by Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese labor. In exchange for modern U.S. equipment for Chinese factories, Peking has concluded agreements with two American firms, which will employ Chinese workers who are paid about $25 a month, to make women...
...agencies have outlived much of their usefulness and that their rules, once necessary to curtail the old robber barons, now work to inhibit natural competition and accelerate inflation. These agencies do little if anything to improve the quality of life, and deregulation, as proved by the CAB'S move to free air fares and the SEC's loosening of brokers' commission rates, can quickly and dramatically cut prices...
...other characters described in Roueche's full-length portraits in this collection of 13 pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker move with a similar ease through the routines of their lives. A Congregational minister visits the aged and tries, without notable success, to counsel the young. Residents of a West Virginia hill town adjust to living in an environment better suited to mountain goats. "How many places do you know," one of the townspeople asks Roueché, "where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting...
McKinney will move in January to the Division of Applied Sciences of GSAS as associate dean for administration...