Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was a chicken farmer and whose hobby is collecting American handguns, his way with words exactly matches Elton's prevailing musical mood. "We never want to write songs that tell an audience what to do," says Taupin. "We don't know enough about the world to preach to people. We take ourselves seriously, but the music has to be listenable...
...independent fiefdoms. So far, White House strategy has been 1) to urge these bureaucracies to weigh the inflationary consequences of their decisions and 2) to maneuver for greater price competition within the existing rules rather than press for outright deregulation of entire industries. Later this spring, Ford plans to preach price-consciousness to the heads of the ICC, CAB, FCC, FPC, FTC, SEC, FMC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...collection includes books, periodicals, maps and photographs, ranging from the seventh century to the present, and is mainly in English and Preach...
...stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...
Lester Brown, who is one of America's best agricultural economists, does not try to cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...