Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would ask the world not to judge South Africa by a double standard, but by the facts. Can anybody blame me for not taking notice of decisions at the U.N. where South Africa is condemned? Britain, the U.S. and France have just meekly and mildly accepted a false accusation from [neighboring] Lesotho that South Africa closed three border posts. The fact is that the West is not prepared to speak up when the Afro-Asians make their accusations. They needn't prove a damn thing, but everybody accepts...
...night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner for two-or such Miami spas as the Cafe Chauveron, where a $100 tab for two is standard...
...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
...Raymond Chandler's undauntable tough guy was a surprisingly soft touch when it came to certain ideals. Like professionalism: he prided himself on keeping his business on the up and up, on staying loyal to his clients, and on always sticking to his standard fee, $25 a day plus expenses--no more, no less. (That is, unless some old fogey with nothing better to do decided to get generous.) And he had a special prickly pride about his apartment at the Hobart Arms. The same tease mentioned above somehow manages to seduce a pass-key away from the super...
...sunken Titanic, miraculously raises the hulk from the depths of the North Atlantic, and then defends its catch against some nasty Soviet spies and an even nastier hurricane. Cussler certainly deserves brownie points for originality, but he doesn't win any for intelligibility. Even with a handful of standard love scenes and assassinations thrown in to keep the reader's mind from wandering off amidst a maze of subplots, the book is a hopelessly convoluted mess that only the most die-hard "Mission: Impossible" fan could possibly enjoy...