Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concorde would bring down the wrath of environmentalists, who charge that the craft is too noisy, burns too much fuel and is a threat to the ozone layer. A decision to bar the plane would be considered an unfriendly act by the British and French and could sour U.S. relations with both countries...
Both books are cashing in on the nation's current mood of disillusionment and individual helplessness, which social scientists see as the sour product of the recession and the dashed hopes of the 1960s. In insisting that hard work will get you nowhere, Korda and Ringer are preaching to a growing number of converts. Says Paula Landau, consultant for an "assertion" training group in North Hollywood, Calif: "There is an unprecedented feeling of loss of control. The middle class is losing out, and they know it." According to U.C.L.A. Psychologist Manuel Smith, author of the self-assertion bestseller When...
...study on its own. An Academy member, Peter Byrne, has searched for the legendary Bigfoot. A New York lawyer has acquired an animal that some feel may even be Bigfoot. Michael Miller bought the creature, described as resembling "a bald chimpanzee with an ear job and a sour disposition," from an animal show...
...Mehdi Ben Barka had been active in politics from the age of 14, when he joined a Moroccan independence movement. For a time he was a tutor to Hassan, then the country's Crown Prince. After Morocco gained its independence, Ben Barka's friendship with Hassan turned sour as he moved leftward in his politics and eventually headed Morocco's political opposition. In 1963, he was elected president of the National Consultative Assembly. Ben Barka later fled into exile in Algeria, and was condemned to death in absentia, allegedly for taking part in a plot against Hassan...
Cautious Policy. Nathan, whose consulting firm advises many unions, reports that "the attitude on the part of labor is pretty sour and pretty frustrated." He fears that unions will push for inflationary wage boosts, and he may be right. Last week the Teamsters Union was talking about demanding as much as a 50% increase for truckers over three years. Mechanics struck United Air Lines; the line canceled all flights through Christmas Eve. Other members of the Board of Economists, while granting that there is danger of a wage-price spiral, think it can be avoided. Some reasons: unemployment will still...