Word: standard
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...black ties and bald heads could belong to old college classmates at a 40th reunion. The Supreme de Volatile Eugenie on the menu is standard hotel chicken with yellow gravy, and the platitudes served up by the speakers might be heard at any nostalgic or vaguely patriotic gathering. But the memories are not of the promise of youth or of bright college years. Mostly, they are of spying...
...Free collective bargaining," Chavez says, "is the accepted way American workers have improved their standard of living. We are convinced collective bargaining is the only way farm workers can escape poverty and exploitation. But there can't be free collective bargaining so long as growers are permitted to respond to their workers' legitimate needs with the massive use of illegal strikebreakers...
Burger is not the only Justice on the Supreme Court who lacks a coherent, identifiable judicial phiants like Marshall Harlan, whose clearly articulated views of the Constitution and the role of the court gave other Justices a standard around which to rally or against which to react. ''There are no strong philosophical bents on this court,'' says University of Virginia Law Professor...
Even the septuagenarian Igor Stravinsky converted to twelve-tone composition under the sway of ''St. Anton.'' Among lesser composers, instant Webernism-compressed structures, jagged melodic leaps, spare, pointillist orchestration-became a sort of standard, freeze-dried product in the 1950s and '60s. Now that the vogue has subsided somewhat, Webern is in danger of having come and gone as an avant-garde influence without ever being absorbed into the standard repertory. A more definitive assessment is needed...
...several terms, progressive candidates, most of whom rally under the standard of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), have held on to a slippery five-man majority. That one-vote edge accounts for rent control in the city of Cambridge. It is also responsible for recently passed limits on condominium conversion. And in large part, those votes have kept City Manager James L. Sullivan at the helm of the city administration...