Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year for anybody earning $25,900 or more. The Board of Economists expects that, in all, taxes will be cut by about $30 billion, including a reduction of some $10 billion for business, probably in the form of liberalized depreciation. Though such a move would increase the deficit at first, it would soon after pay dividends. By helping to sharpen the nation's efficiency, it would combat many of the problems that the U.S. economy encountered in a year of troubled change...
...unified campaign in the forthcoming elections. Nevertheless, many guerrillas have been killed in intramural gun fights between the rival factions. Says James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader: "The security forces sit on tops of hills and wait for ZIPRA and ZANLA to knock each other to pieces. Then they move in and kill." In November ZIPRA and ZANLA units clashed 100 miles north of the capital as both sides attempted to gain control of a contested slab of territory before the cease-fire takes effect. To minimize such battles, Mugabe's troops will probably assemble...
...more controversial move was made by Sotheby's last summer. The company announced that it had entered into an agreement with Citibank, the second largest banking organization in the U.S., to assist the bank's millionaire clients in acquiring artworks for investment. Though Sotheby's insists that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president...
While Macleod insists on an 18-minute maximum, in former times sermons would run more than an hour. Ministers commanded an authority that would be unthinkable today. They could give full play to docere, delectare, flectere (to teach, to delight, to move), the three purposes of preaching once listed by St. Augustine...
From the airless corridors of London to the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Smiley battles Karla as masters play chess by mail, visualizing the opponent, pondering alternatives, waiting agonizing days for the next move. And herein lie the novel's aggravating weaknesses. Readers have been here long, long ago. Smiley, the cerebral sleuth, may be as corpulent as Nero Wolfe, but in this adventure he is suddenly Sherlock Holmes redivivus. His obsessive enemy is a new version of Dr. Moriarty. The audience is Watson, condemned to wonder what the detective is up to when he examines those cigarettes...