Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Cosa Nostra's obvious frightening strengths, new problems and challenges are coming at it from several sides. In the slums, for instance, its control of gambling and vice is being contested, sometimes successfully, by the blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans who want a share of the action. In Buffalo, the blacks at first worked a bargain with Magaddino by which they would control the numbers racket, giving him only a 10% tribute. Later, when he ran into trouble with the authorities, they stopped the 10% entirely. That was nothing compared to the trouble that Ruggiero Boiardo...
...majority on the Presidium quickly rejected it. As Dubček evidently concluded, the perils of "anti-socialism" were distinctly preferable to the economic stagnation and moral despair that have now settled on Czechoslovakia. That conclusion is unacceptable to the Soviets. It is all too obvious, however, to the 40,000 Czechoslovaks who have already chosen exile from their homeland -and, more painfully so, to those who stayed behind...
Lack of Motivation. One obvious explanation is that the current G.I. Bill's benefits are relatively small. Today's unmarried veteran receives $130 a month to cover all expenses, including tuition. World War II veterans received tuition, fees and book costs (up to $500 a school year) plus a $75 living allowance, which went a lot farther in the '40s. Another reason is that highly paid jobs are plentiful in an overheated economy. Still another is the educational background of the soldier returning from Viet Nam. Because of college-draft deferments, service ranks were filled with less...
Frequently, the fugitives are even more obvious: knowing that their credit-card bills will be mailed to their offices or homes, they start hinting their whereabouts by charging things, even insignificant items such as the 500 breakfast that one fugitive bought with his credit card. For a minimum fee of $500, Tracers turns over the new addresses of some 800 such runaway husbands to their wives each year-and finds that with only a little prodding, 90% of the husbands come home...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realize its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurb." What force! What fall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic langour at his stage may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary. Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile...