Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the previous year-it was not enough to offset the 11% jump in prices, the bureau's new report says. Worse, another 1.3 million Americans slipped below the poverty level (e.g., $5,038 for a nonfarm family of four), though the poverty line itself was raised to reflect inflation. By the bureau's figures, the increase brought the total of officially defined poor to 24.3 million people, or 12% of the nation's population...
Furthermore, as I indicated in reviewing the previous production of The Winter's Tale mounted in 1958 by the American Shakespeare Theater, the central tetralogies of both men show many thematic and other relationships, and both reflect a shift from conventional Probabilities to incongruities and implausibilities. In confronting the four Beethoven pieces and the four Shakespeare plays, we find, on the one hand, more that is meditative, philosophical and allusive, and, on the other, more that is naive, childlike or grotesque. This is not the place to pursue the matter at length, but it remains curious and noteworthy that...
...Inflation and recession are two reasons for the slump: the company's printing and paper costs have skyrocketed, and guests are spending less at the hotels and clubs. But the troubles also reflect Hefner's habit of plunging into new ventures without doing any in-depth advance planning, then losing interest but still insisting on making all the big decisions himself. As a result, PEI is saddled with businesses ranging from modeling agencies and limousine services to bar trinkets, for which it is only now beginning to develop a coherent marketing strategy. Recognizing that the operation must...
...Well, to the extent that there is any revival of isolationism in this country, I wonder if it does not reflect the feeling that we democracies are a minority...
These are hard times for school superintendents everywhere. Since spring, superintendents have resigned or been asked to leave in a dozen large U.S. cities besides Washington. Among them: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco. In large part, the troubles besetting superintendents reflect the emergence of more politically active school board members who want to run the schools themselves. Says William Henry, associate director of the American Association of School Administrators: "The pattern developing across the country is board members as Mr. Fixits. I am not sure any superintendent can manage any big-city school system...