Word: seldom
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Heavy Switch. Watching the early bad news up in his room at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Carter turned to Barry Jagoda, a former CBS producer who coordinates coverage of the Carter campaign with the networks. "How often are they wrong?" he asked. "Seldom," Jagoda replied. "Well, I'm satisfied," said Carter. "I never like to finish second. But I think we've done well here." Half an hour later, at 10:30, he went down to the ballroom, addressed his disappointed backers and offered his "tentative congratulations" to Udall...
...inevitably offers near-banking hours for the non-intercollegiate athlete. Often the gym is only open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., hardly prime time for the basketball devotee who somehow along the line misscheduled his courses so that his classes fall into that available court time slot. Seldom is the gym open for basketball more than four hours on weekends, and often it is closed Sundays, again a period when it is most likely to be in demand...
Despite these material gains, Israel's Arabs remain, in certain respects, second-class citizens. Although there is no official apartheid, the Jewish and Arab communities seldom mix. The majority of Arabs live in 107 villages (most in Galilee) in which there are no Jews ?and until 1966, these communities were under military rule. There are relatively few Arabs in top government jobs or in the military?partly for security reasons and partly to spare them a crisis of conscience during war. Although they comprise 13% of Israel's population, Arabs hold only six of the Knesset's 120 seats...
Recognizing the glamour of Grand Prix and hoping it would somehow rub off on Long Beach, city fathers and race promoters three years ago began organizing a Monaco-style race through the city streets. There were a few problems, of course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...
...person just what's happening." And so on. Individuals have less direct control than they used to over the consequences of what they do, so morality has lost its practical substance and kept only its form. "Modern life is so complex and swift that a person immersed in it seldom sees what he's actually doing...