Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumer charges for apparel, heating fuel, mortgages, medical care and telephone service, among other economic necessities. The ineluctable result of the across-the-board rise in living costs was to drive down the real spendable income -earnings that have been discounted for inflation-of U.S. workers. Thus, despite a slight increase in wage levels for the month, the real income of factory workers declined...
...when only a jury could impose it; the Supreme Court concluded that this practice meant defendants might waive their right to a jury to avoid the risk of death. The court also threw out death sentences when potential jurors in the case had been excluded if they had even slight reservations about capital punishment...
Neither player, of course, is an easy mark. Riggs has a number of strengths, including total concentration when he plays seriously. His slight deafness helps filter out distractions. He also claims to have an inner eye, a kind of instant pre-play that, he says, allows him to imagine every shot in his mind beforehand. "I've played Billie Jean a dozen times in my mind," he says. "Nothing she can do will be unexpected." A more tangible asset is his complete control over the racket. He can return any shot that he can reach. But, he admits...
...remarried have rarely had the official sympathy of their church. Indeed, unless the first marriage can somehow be proved invalid, the second union is considered to be no marriage at all, and canon law bars the partners from the sacrament of the Eucharist. Even so, there has been one slight softening in Rome's attitude. A recent letter to the world's bishops promises that the Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages...
Although it is excellent to have a giant's strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant, and a giant acting for himself can't use it any other way. By deepening our understanding of this truism, Sampson's book may hasten--in however slight a degree--the day when the people of the world assume the power their capital has built...