Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 5% raises in each of the following two years. The teachers did win guaranteed teacher-pupil ratios for special programs, but at a terrible price. Union President Martin Cullinan is serving 20 days in jail for disregarding a court order to go back to work. The union must pay $170,000 in fines, which will eventually go to the school district, and each teacher has been fined two days' pay for every day on strike. The average loss: over $5,000. In effect, Levittown teachers will be working until the end of January without pay. Some have...
...merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini repeated his do-or-die demands that the Shah must...
...social, political and economic fabric was torn apart. The people had no chance to participate in the political process. The Shah means to give them that as soon as possible. But having made what he feels are substantial concessions over the past year, he now says that reforms must wait their turn...
Sometimes it seems that some ideal system of manners must be imprinted in the collective unconscious of the race; at any rate, men and women have been trying long enough to discover it. One of the earliest known books, the Instructions of Ptahhotep, was an Egyptian behavior manual written around 2350 B.C. (Among Ptahhotep's precepts: Never offend a self-made man, and "Be silent, for it is better than teftef flowers.") Ever since then, social thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies...
...having seriously offended someone" sounds a little like W.C. Fields: "Dear Hank, There is no way I can erase the tragic error of my bumbling tongue." So with a letter to a colleague about a son who has just won a scholarship to Yale: "You and your wife must be bursting forth with unmitigated but understandable pride...