Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March. When Harry Lack, a district court judge in Everett, Mass., and his wife decided to take a golfing trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas, they could have saved $280 by booking into a charter flight and considerably more cash by staying at one of the island's pleasant smaller hotels. Instead, they flew first class and booked into the pricey Britannia Beach Hotel. "I feel inflation like everyone else," says Mrs. Lack. "With the economy tight, I'm not getting a new car this year like I usually do, but we've always taken trips...
...need. Assignment America should be read as it is, a pleasant, meandering, and sometimes insightful tour among some interesting people of America. The reporters have a playwright's ear for dialogues and conversations. The writing is superb, with enough periodic sentences to be almost arty, but enough like a newspaper to be largely anonymous...
...could have sounded a bleaker note than Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, when he testified before the Joint Economic Committee last week. "The outlook for 1975 is neither pleasant nor reassuring to those who hope for a sudden correction of our problems," he said. He did not foresee an upturn until the third quarter, if then, unless there is a major change in policies. "Although we had expected some weakening, what we are now experiencing has come upon us much more suddenly than we generally realized...
...took it upon ourselves over and above our duty to provide that service to the community," Edelin said. "It was not a pleasant thing to do. We had to do them late in the afternoon or on Saturday mornings on our own time, with a skeletion crew in the operating room...
...emphasis on scholastics. "Some students boast at graduation they never opened a book," explains Headmaster William Reid. "These youngsters are interested in sports or friends they make here, enjoying community life and spending nights on the corner. High school for many of them is looked on as the most pleasant experience of their life...