Word: rigorousity
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Mahoney: Well, let me go back to the position that I've been taking on platforms up and down the country on this issue. We've made some progress in this country as far as racism, some progress on sexism, but we've done nothing as far as ageism is...
Cullitin: Speaking for MIT, there are reasons that in an intellectual environment there needs to be the opportunity for the young people who are right out of graduate school and that the continuance of people beyond 70 is going to limit that. The other reason has to do with the...
Our rigorous definitions result in considerably higher figures than are customarily applied. But we believe our approach is valid in the current situation. In reality, however, we would not reduce a country's credit standing solely to a set of numbers, without considering other factors as well.
A low-budget 1977 sleeper that was based on a magazine article, Saturday Night Fever took in some $145 million at the box office. For his long-planned sequel, Producer Robert Stigwood, 48, persuaded John Travolta, 28, to repeat his role as Tony Manero in Staying Alive. The star agreed...
The most successful ads seem to indicate a quivering sensibility or a rakish, humorous personality, perhaps with a naughty hint of "life in the fast lane." The New York Review of Books often features a mock high-cultural tone ("Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from...