Word: subterranean
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...American consciousness, the dissector of our spiritual heritage; the rationalist Harvard professor, the ascetic hermit; the half-Spanish, half-Boston Brahmin writer who knew the spirit of this country so well yet found it troubling and oppressive--what did Jim Jones see in his words? Surely there is some subterranean meaning in this strange confluence of philosophies...
...pavement in the past. For decades businessmen big and small have been the target of much political contempt and odium, often with justification. They were the representatives of profit and greed (a distinction rarely made), purveyors of shoddy products and pollution. Businessmen searched for influence in the subterranean corridors of power, using lawyers and fixers, fearful of bureaucrats, reporters and sunshine...
Nowhere is this cultural richness more apparent than in the artworks that these paleolithic hunters left in caves in France and Spain. When the first of these subterranean galleries was discovered in Spain nearly a century ago, Europe's savants, still reeling from the shock of Darwinian evolution, refused to believe that the find was anything more than a hoax. Since then, nearly a hundred richly decorated prehistoric caves have been found in Spain and France, and the existence of paleolithic painting has been established beyond doubt. The ancient artisans also left behind tiny sculptures of exquisite beauty, meticulous...
...snow from Mrs. O'Leary's driveway and makes five bucks. Does the IRS hear about it? Of course not. But Johnny's income-unreported and untaxed -is part of what Economics Professor Peter M. Gutmann of New York's Bernard Baruch College calls the "subterranean economy" of the U.S., with a G.N.P. that he calculates at $195 billion...
...crime. The rest, he writes, is largely traceable to such cash-oriented businesses as restaurants, garages and small retail shops, to youths doing part-time chores for pin money, and to the employment of illegal aliens and retired people who also collect Social Security checks. Ultimately, Gutmann feels, the subterranean economy, like black markets around the world, was created by the nation's cobweb of employment restrictions and tax rules. Coupled with a new-morality spirit of what he calls "selective obedience to the law," they encourage Americans to cheat the System when they can get away with...