Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 51 per cent of the major stem and tributary mileage in the six-state region meet the fishable-swimmable standard with Rhode Island's 64 per cent leading in New England...
This well-crafted play affords the best of the standard summer stock fare--a nice, light evening with an old American favorite, what is currently classified as "family entertainment." The Loeb production, with warm wit and the impeccable Hamlin duo, provides a welcome break from the self-conscious intellect usually found in this theatre...
...feeling that somehow Government has gotten away from basic standards and integrity is very deep-and a feeling that there's a double standard for the rich and powerful. People also feel that Government doesn't work, and they need someone to make it responsive and make it respectful...
...quoted Harvard's 1876 class day orator, who spoke with "self assurance and resolve." Moynihan quoted the orator calling on the members of the educated class "to set themselves against the prevailing vulgarity that has become characteristic of American life: It is for them to endeavor to elevate the standard of public taste...to promote and foster...that true inward refinement which alone makes possible the higher social enjoyments that distinguish civilization from barbarism dressed...
...papers for his commital, which were signed by a physician at the University Health Services, are the standard forms used for patients who "show psychotic symptoms on the outside," Tortora said...