Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though conservatives often lament the welfare mess in the harshest terms, they have offered few realistic and workable alternatives. Senator Barry Goldwater, in The Conscience of a Conservative, advocates turning all welfare over to private institutions?an 18th century solution for a 20th century problem. His onetime adviser, Economist Milton...
Confronted with Paris' stiff prices, many a visiting American has wondered how the French manage to live at all well on their monthly salaries, which average far below U.S. scales. The answer is that Frenchmen do not get by on their salaries alone. Thanks to an elaborate system of...
Members of the board feel that this clause should give Corcoran little actual power in determining pay scales, and no power to bargain. "So what if he offers you 11 per cent?" said Justin Gray, one of the founders of Cambridge Model Cities. "The point is that he has no...
A rundown of these five key contests and three others of special interest: OHIO. In assessing his party's nominee for Governor, an Ohio Republican recently referred to Roger Cloud as "a nice guy, but when he walks into a room, nothing happens." Cloud has walked into a political...
Those sequences which employ metaphor also have limited success, for their meaning comes less from their formal mode than from a semi-representational correspondence to real events. One sequence finds Berto singing scales on "oh." Leaud, standing directly behind her, begins to strangle her and say "ah"; she falters, begins...