Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James indeed seems not to care. Says he: "Judge me by the bottom line-literacy, jobs, per capita income. I'm going to figure out what's right and do it. If it is right, the people will support it." So far, they have. Preliminary poll results show him with a 69% favorable performance rating, higher than Wallace ever commanded during his twelve years in the Governor's office...
...special circumstances. To take a second wife, a man may plead nine special circumstances, including "consent of the first wife" and "wife's insubordination to husband." The most radical changes: women were permitted to divorce their husbands under a greater variety of circumstances, and men had to show cause when shedding wives. So it should have come as no surprise that when Khomeini advised suspension of the Family Protection Law, women were outraged, including those who eagerly cover their heads. The Ayatullah backed down...
...people live, the old customs survive. Fifty-three percent of Iranian women remain illiterate, and for them the only means of survival is marriage, their only protection the family. A girl is frequently married by her late teens. On the wedding night, her parents expect to be able to show proof of her virginity. The girl often goes to work and lives in her mother-in-law's house...
...Show business is only as good as its stars, and NBC never really recovered. CBS swift ly surpassed its rivals in both radio and TV, and remained serenely ahead, an al most imperial power, until it was finally topped...
Such scenes may not occur in Wall Street law firms, but they might make a movie, perhaps even a high-class, low-Nielsen TV show. It is a pity that Osborn did not find enough that is human about major league law firms to make his book something more. -Evan Thomas