Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist who improperly commits an old person to a mental hospital is worse than a draft dodger who fakes a physical defect...
...election, he declared, is a "contract between the person elected and the electorate." What followed were the terms of Poher's own contract proposal, and they constituted a clear bid to un-Gaullize France. He pledged to renew ties with the Atlantic alliance, and to reduce France's heavy foreign aid load. Domestically, he promised to chip away at De Gaulle's extravagant "prestige items" and to work for decent housing for everyone, job security and protection against illness...
...course of political literacy, repeated from year to year," and conducted by "half-educated officers mechanically reading what is written or repeating it in their own words. A question that the officer cannot answer (and these are in the majority) may be regarded as 'provocative' and the person who asked it is punished in one way or another. If you express your own view you risk a new trial and sentence...
...finance their holdings of securities. Interest rates on tax-exempt local bonds reached new peaks. Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...
...hustler and a gigolo; if he knows a lot about sex, he is, like Ratso, ignorant of sympathy. Neither realizes that the only place he has ever found it is in his companion. Yet by the time the two head for Florida, they have become aspects of the same person. As the thief coughs his way to death aboard a bus, the cowboy is literally beside himself with grief...