Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious attempt to reassure his opponents, the palace announced that "it is possible that after the installation of a civil government the Shah may go with his family on his routine annual winter vacation." This was calculated as yet a further concession to skeptics, since the monarch earlier had balked at the suggestion that he take a "temporary absence" from Iran so that order could be restored. The skeptics were not impressed, since there was no way that they could be assured that the Shah would keep his word...
...growing stature of women economists is most obvious in the policy-making realms of Government, where political pressures have weakened antifemale prejudices far more than in the worlds of academe and business. Never have so many women economists held such high federal posts as they do today. Some notable examples...
...need to stay sharp for the tough meets later in the season," he added, in obvious reference to next month's Eastern League showdown at Princeton...
...doctrine, discipline and issues of "general concern." Leaders of the Colored daughter church rejected the plan in favor of one even more daring: unification of the four churches. The white church, at its quadrennial synod a few weeks later, flatly rejected any accommodation to its nonwhite Reformed Christians. (The obvious fear: the church might gradually integrate at regional and local levels, and also lay the moral grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government.) The delegates also rejected a suggestion that they rename the nonwhite factions "sister" rather than "daughter" churches. The synod elected as the church...
...revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square theater is not exactly on the rocks, but it is certainly becalmed. One obvious flaw is the casting. Shaw's hero, Jack Tanner (George Grizzard), who doubles as Don Juan, is meant to be a clever and intense young idealist, full of revolutionary ardor. He is in the grip of what Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy...