Word: partialities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a context, Shahak's actions seem calculated to make more enemies than ever, but he says the mood of apathy on the one hand, and the partial improvement in the human rights situation within Israel on the other, has lessened the harassment of him personally and has stopped the "persecution" of his group. Yet according to Shahak, this change in atmosphere is not due to a greater awareness among the Israeli people of the linkage of human rights to Israel's survival--an issue the professor regards as crucial...
...German club in Asunción. Risking discovery, Mengele sometimes drinks too much; one evening, he drunkenly pulled out a pistol and waved it about. Another time he chatted with a visiting West German professor. Each time someone entered the bar, Mengele, who wears sunglasses as a partial disguise on his Asunción excursions, would quicky put them back on. Then, after he recognized the newcomer, he would take them off. Finally, he became so annoyed with putting on and taking off his glasses that he slammed them on the table, shattering a lens...
...other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math. The system also offers as a combined incentive and consolation something called "partial promotion." A student who has partially mastered third grade work, for example, may be half-promoted to a grade called...
...only a partial victory, but for Britain's Prime Minister James Callaghan every little bit helps these days. Meeting last week in the tacky resort city of Blackpool, 1,148 delegates of the powerful Trades Union Congress voted by a 3-to-2 margin to limit the future wage-increase demands of their individual unions to one a year. Callaghan would have preferred a third year of voluntary wage restraints in accordance with the government's incomes policy (TIME, July 18). The effect of the T.U.C. vote, even though it set no limits on the size of wage...
...rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. The Creation itself was achieved in the autumn, according to a tradition of Judaism-whence the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at summer's end or the start of fall. The suspicion that even God is partial to autumn has overwhelmed others, including John Donne, who enthused: "In Heaven, it is always Autumn...