Word: plowed
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Trudeau had proved unable to gain the consent of the provinces and had assumed the role of the bold maverick, vowing to plow ahead with his plans regardless of the opposition. With a comfortable federal majority, he can pass the legislation and then send it on to Britain for what should be routine ratification. The provincial premiers naturally challenged the legality of Trudeau's proposal to proceed unilaterally, and the case naturally fell into the laps of a squirming Supreme Court. In the meantime, Trudeau's opponents--the federal Conservative party and the provincial premiers--started writing letters to British...
...star Conchata Ferrell, a virtuoso at New York City's Circle Repertory Theatre, is a near- newcomer to cinema. Earthy and sensible, heavy sleeves rolled up to heavy elbows, her Elinore can plow a field and scrub the laundry and milk a cow; she knows how to ride and she plans to learn how to rope. She is a frontier woman, pure and simple; she understands the various businesses of life and how to get on with them...
Throughout, Galbraith is as laconic as an Ontario plow jockey. He offers little about his private life; his wit is a bit too mechanical, as are mordant observations like "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." Yet Galbraith's air of detachment is satisfying. It enables him to place himself in recent history without seeming more or less important than he was. He is one of the few contemporary memoirists who have held the line on inflation...
Because today's workers are better educated than those in the past, their expectations are higher. Many younger Americans have rearranged their ideas about what they want to get out of life. While their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers concentrated hard upon plow and drill press and pressure gauge and tort, some younger workers now ask previously unimaginable questions about the point of knocking themselves out. For the first time in the history of the world, masses of people in industrially advanced countries no longer have to focus their minds upon work as the central concern of their...
...billion goal, Mugabe was pleased with the results. The money will be used to repair war damage, resettle refugees, develop agriculture and redistribute land. Despite continuing tribal warfare, Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Zimbabwe's reconstruction. "While they may not have been turned into plow shares," he said, "the swords of war have nonetheless been rendered blunt, and within our country we are determined to keep them that way." The only economic sour note for Mugabe was sounded in Pretoria, which announced last week that it would end its preferential trade agreements with Zimbabwe in a year...