Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper is backed up by the stern might of the law; it can be followed by fines, loss of federal aid, harassment and obloquy. The regulations are impeding and inhibiting Americans in almost all areas of endeavor and transforming the society in ways that nobody can quite foresee. Writing in a new bimonthly magazine, Regulation, published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute in an effort to keep track of federal rulings, Social Critic Irving Kristol argues that many of the zealous regulators have an "ideological animus against the private economic sector. They are inclined to believe that a planned economic...
...Stylistically, the novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements...
...euphoria, one Israeli correspondent even managed to get an interview with Mrs. Sadat. But for Shabtai Tal, Israeli correspondent for the West German magazine Stern, his most moving moment may have come during dinner with another Israeli at a restaurant near the pyramids. When the proprietor discovered the diners' identities, the restaurant's small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis...
...that steam is building up all that fast these days. Though martial law has resulted in the loss of considerable political freedom, the Philippine economy after five years of stern rule appears to be performing relatively well. According to the government, unemployment has dropped from 7% to 4.5%, inflation is down from 45% to 7% annually, real gross national product last year increased by 7.6%. There is also widespread appreciation of the law-and-order the regime has established. Foreign businessmen, for instance, have been attracted by liberal investment terms and the fact that as a result of martial...
Last September the Department of Health, Education and Welfare sent a stern command to the Joseph Sears Elementary School in Chicago's posh North Shore suburb of Kenilworth (pop. 2,980). According to HEW, Sears was required to fill out a detailed Title IX questionnaire explaining how it had eliminated sex discrimination in its hiring policy, in facilities for its 575 pupils and in its curriculum. The penalty for noncompliance: an end to HEW aid for the school...