Word: pyramids
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...second point is that the old Peking rulers were the custodians and propagators of a true teaching, the Confucian classical doctrines of social order, an orthodoxy which told every man how to behave in his proper place and kept the social pyramid intact with the emperor on top. The emperor was himself the high priest of a cult of social order. The three main bonds of the Confucian social order were the filial piety of children to their superior parents, the admirable devotion of wives to their superior husbands, the loyalty of scholar officials to their superior the emperor. This...
...stock transfers and on the use of sewers. Last week, testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee that is trying to write sensible guidelines for such taxes, Caloric Corp. Vice President Werner N. Davidson complained: "Today the overlapping state, county, city and school-district tax structure reminds me of a pyramid built by drunken Egyptians...
...largely by President Giuseppe Luraghi, 60. A onetime IRI executive, Luraghi was put in the driver's seat to balance speed and wind designing with cost accounting, marketing and long-range planning. Like many of his competitors in the U.S. and Europe, he sees world automaking as a pyramid, with expensive Rolls-Royces and Ferraris at the top, and U.S. and European mass-produced cars at the bottom. In between there is a growing and superbly profitable specialty market for flashy family sports cars like Ford's Thunderbird, Britain's Jaguar-and his own Alfa-Romeo...
...HILL. A sandy pyramid separates the men from the boys at a British army stockade in North Africa where Sean...
...HILL. A sandy pyramid separates the men from the boys at a British army stockade in North Africa where Sean Connery, as a bedeviled prisoner, proves his mettle without benefit of Bond...