Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single belief common to most of these movements can be found, it is that at the center of a person's being is a spark of divinity, of spiritual soul, which is part of the spiritual energy of the whole cosmos and which a person may be able to tap through various means--meditative, introspective, or ritualistic. This spiritual energy can not be found in our materialistic world and cannot be discovered by scientific experiments or theorizing: it must be encountered through direct experience after considerable effort...
...question of the unmarried couple is everywhere. How to handle the linguistic problem of what to call the person with whom one's daughter lives? "Lover" is too archaically lubricious by a shade or two. "Roommate" sounds like a freshman dorm. "Bedmate" is too sexually specific, but "friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed...
...person who emerges unscathed from the fiasco is Ann-Margret...
...million, but its rules forced industry to spend at least $7.8 billion. In a long and complex study, Weidenbaum estimated that total administrative costs of $3 billion in 1976 generated compliance costs that add up to a staggering $63 billion, equivalent to a hidden tax of $307 on every person...
...Rather than replace McKinney, we're reviewing the operation of the whole graduate school," he said. "Probably the only person who isn't moving is the receptionist," he added...