Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back to Barter. The Lindgren case resulted from a quirk in the law (which will be changed), but it dramatized the near confiscatory nature of Sweden's tax structure, which inhibits individual initiative. Sven Stolpe, 70, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers, announced last month that he had burned the manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere...
...that sounds like the stuff the other liberal Democrats were proffering up to New Hampshire voters, it was. And Bona's lack of an issue or personal quirk to distinguish himself from the Udalls and the Shrivers may go a long way toward explaining why his family alone contributed five per cent of the support he had in New Hampshire...
...more forbidding quirk is the esteem promoted by the regime for industrial imagery. In its humorous form this imagery is applied to a laborer's efficiency and a program's projected output. A satellite signifies the most production possible. The best workers in the penal system are classified as rockets and the slower ones, progressively, as airplanes, locomotives, automobiles, bicycles and lastly, ox carts. Pasqualini recalls one worker who was demoted to the status of a turtle, which is not only slow, but the traditional Chinese symbol of a cuckold. However, pushed a little further, this preoccupation with mechanical efficiency...
...quirk of fate, both Harvard divers, Dave English and Roger Johannigman, injured themselves slightly during warm-ups. English hurt his back when he hit the bottom of the Dartmouth pool and Johannigman slipped on the board and injured his knee...
...team qualified through a mere quirk in the system...