Word: static
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bourbon. Real football, for nine out of ten, is the pro variety. High school football is nice, if you enjoy seeing beardless adolescents trying to cripple each other. College football can be fun-picnics on the tailgate, and lots of juiced-up nostalgia -but the game itself is static, sloppy and full of mistakes. No. For the true fan, only the pro game will...
Blue collar workers are more militant today largely because their aspirations have been raised while their real income remains static. "In a sense, businessmen bring labor militance on themselves by advertising and raising prices," says Clark Kerr, former chancellor of the University of California and a top labor expert. "They constantly raise the level of expectations of their own workers." Blue collar workers are also profoundly influenced by what Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, calls "the second life that everyone leads through TV." The worker and his wife constantly see advertised on television the products that...
Then tension established by the contradictory lyrical elements is reinforced in the album's execution. Hardly one second of this album is static or unnecessary. The music either changes or grows more complex. Instrumental breaks are cut short before their completion dissipates the tension they generate. The songs don't even end, but rather fade out or just stop. Cale's vocals are undramatic yet precise-like the non-climactic songs they rechannel their energy back into paths that run through the entire album...
...urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium. As for the modern liberal position, it has been more noted for restraining (sometimes wisely, sometimes foolishly) the forces of change than for stimulating or liberating them...
...would consider this to mean the work in Foundations of Economics (1947), which dealt with static and dynamic theory- supplemented by approximately 150 papers since then," Samuelson said yesterday. "I don't think it was for my textbook...