Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solid Bone. The angry populace soon retaliated. Dentists and doctors turned away electrical workers who tried to take advantage of the slowdown by scheduling appointments. Stores, bars and gas stations refused to serve them. A bus conductor told one power man: "Your lot have put me to a stack of inconvenience. Get off and walk." One of the few signs of support came from unionized workers at London's Evening Standard who walked out and halted late editions in protest against a drawing they considered objectionable. The cartoon pictured the E.T.U. worker as "Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus, circa...
Pared down from an initial stack of over 900 nominations, the list still includes between 20 and 30 names of persons who are completely unknown to most members of the Harvard community. As a result, most faculty members are taking it more as a guideline for interpreting the spectrum of candidates and intentions of the Corporation rather than a "serious" list of finalists...
...reach man's unawakened resources, the movement focuses on the actions and interactions of individuals in a group. In this, it has borrowed freely from psychology's past, from such extenders of Freudian theory as Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan, who realized that no individual can be defined, and no emotional disorder healed, without an examination of the interchange between one man and all the others in his life. Society itself is defined by the group. The movement's exponents argue that by expanding the individual's self-awareness and sense of well-being within...
Most parents view academic achievement in individual terms-that is, how their kids stack up against their immediate classmates. In fact, the U.S. has done little to determine the knowledge levels of entire age groups across the nation. What, for instance, do American nine-year-olds really know about math? What do they not know? Where are 13-year-olds most deficient in literature, say, or social studies...
Though audiences could no longer feel it, Nichols' tongue was still sharp enough to slice. Richard Burton likes to retell the story of Walter Matthau, "a frenetic soul, and he finally blew his stack at Nichols' Odd Couple direction. 'You're emasculating me,' Walter cried. 'Give me back my balls!' From out front, Mike called back: 'Props...