Word: reflects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most staff members are under 40, well educated, well paid (many are at the $40,000 level), and reflect the political leanings of their employers. Their power has grown out of the desire of Congress to compete with the previously overwhelming expertise of the vast bureaucracy of the Executive Branch. Also, legislative issues have grown more complex, and Congress has taken its watchdog function over the Administration more seriously. No Congressman can hope to absorb by himself most of the increasingly technical information demanded by both the expanded work of Congress and a more insistent and sophisticated public...
Many of Guam's regulations reflect U.S. domestic politics more than common sense. The Environmental Protection Agency orders power stations to use low-sulfur oil even though the island is washed by a brisk 10 m.p.h. trade wind that blows away pollution. The Jones Act requires that all commodities shipped between U.S. ports be carried on U.S. vessels. The former rule adds $10 million to Guam's annual fuel bill; the latter has made the island's economy vulnerable to longshoremen's disputes that take place thousands of miles away. "We're always...
...towns love their teams fiercely, each in its own style, and the teams, in turn, reflect in a measure the characters of their cities. Denver, wild and woolly jumping-off point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...
...added that the yield in early applicants admitted to the Class of '82 was higher than that of normal applicants. The make-up the group Harvard accepted "did not reflect any unusual trends," Fitzsimmons said, although it appears to indicate that minority group members tend to wait until the regular January deadline to apply...
...virtually unanimous in their support for a studentwide referendum to approve the final constitution. They are also quick to claim the support of President Bok, Dean Epps--even though Rosovsky, in a reception at Dunster House last month, said, "It is absurd to assume that any organization could accurately reflect the views of Harvard's student body...