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...that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese (implement used as a verb...
...rankings (there are others for middle-sized and small cities) clearly reinforce the study's overall conclusion that those nice, comfortable Southern cities fare poorly in competition with their frenetic counterparts in the West, the North Central States and the Northeast. Indeed, only Birmingham, Ala., was rated "substandard" in all categories, while only Portland, Ore., came off with "outstanding" honors on all counts...
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...chapter 121A agreement allows a corporation to build a tax exempt project if the corporation can show that the area that the project is to be built in is blighted, open, decadent or substandard...
...these substandard homes are public institutions. The majority, however, are private. The reason for the ratio is money-public money, ironically, appropriated to give aid and comfort to the Indigent aged. In 1966 the Federal Government began to pay for nursing-home care through Medicaid, a federal-state program that last year spent $4.4 billion of its $12.7 billion budget on the elderly. The sudden gush of cash set loose a nursing-home boom as many entrepreneurs, many of them interested only in the bottom line, rushed into the business...