Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUIET WORLD of the Catholic clergy in middle America is not one that comes frequently under literary scrutiny. Nonetheless, J.F. Powers in his new collection of short stories, Look How the Fish Live, has taken the risk of focusing on pastors and curates. Although it's sometimes a little difficult to identify with his characters--how many of us are curates, after all?--the clergy and the Church are perfectly suited to the theme that runs through Power's stories. Powers's main concern is the lack of defined relationships in a world of change and ever-increasing technology...
...batted down by upstate Republicans; a sales-tax increase (from 8% to 9% in the city) was rejected by city Democrats. In desperation, the legislators began to concoct what Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson called a "bouillabaisse": a stew of taxes that added up to $205 million at the risk of offending most consumers in the city. In addition to an increase in the city income tax, the plan included higher levies on banks, automobiles and cigarettes, and new taxes on barbershops, beauty parlors and massage parlors. After a stormy all-night debate, the New York city council approved...
...down walls, lift cars and pull out trees by the roots. Reid Hilton's new arm is only slightly less remarkable−and considerably less expensive. Hilton, 24, a Santa Ana, Calif., karate expert who lost his right arm below the elbow in an accident, will probably not risk smashing bricks with his experimental $40,000 replacement. But the prosthesis should enable him, with practice, to function like a man with two natural arms, and in some ways outperform...
...struggle through organic and Bio 2 for nothing? And even if my career does not interfere with my long-term goals, is scratching my way to and through medical school worth all the time and money if it is not related to my goals, and if I risk losing some of my commitment to the black people who pull the cart I ride...
...help: "You can't do anything with the colored balloons of philosophic formulas and quick and easy slogans." Brandt defended the party's coalition with the Free Democrats and lashed out at the opposition Christian Democrats for negativist policies. The C.D.U., he declared, "is becoming a security risk for our country...