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...women do learn to use their bodies and their sexuality. Sometimes it seems hard to get men to listen to a woman unless she humbles herself a little--there are too many jokes about the shrewish type. When a woman says no, her body tends to find ways to soften or deny her words; Chesler and Goodman call it using her body "deferentially." She adopts certain mannerisms as a way for daring to threaten, rather than to put men at their ease. It is more acceptable for women than men to behave childishly, thereby rendering themselves less imposing as sexual...
Survival Strategies. The rising terror has been coupled with ruinous inflation, currently running at a rate of 600% a year and caused largely by the feckless government economic policies. While the treasury presses out billions of pesos each week to finance rising deficits, the Peron regime has tried to soften the inflation's impact on wage earners by imposing artificial ceilings on service and commodity prices. These ceilings, in turn, have severely squeezed farmers and businessmen, with the result that goods and services are simply disappearing...
...burning of fuels with a high sulfur content in the most populous parts of the country. Since at the time nearly 80% of U.S. coal production did not meet the standards, many electric utilities-coal's biggest steady customer-switched to oil. Industry efforts to get Congress to soften the law failed. Finally, in 1974, the Federal Energy Administration, seeking to save oil, ordered 25 utilities to switch back to coal in 74 plants. So far only one power plant has actually made that switch. Conversion of the rest has been blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency, which enforces...
...keeping up constant pressure, Congress induced Ford to soften his adamant stand against giving aid to New York City until it declared bankruptcy, although the President also forced many cutbacks on the city. In another compromise with the White House, Congress floundered for a year before finally passing a makeshift energy bill that had many grave weaknesses...
Senator Ted Kennedy, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and James Farley, 87, Franklin Roosevelt's Postmaster General and Spivak's first Meet the Press TV guest back in 1947. The bonhomie pleased Spivak but did not soften him up. "Somebody once told me," he recalled with satisfaction, " 'you've made a career out of saying things other people would get punched in the nose for suggesting...