Word: subverts
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...puts it, "to slip easily back into a traditional vernacular -- woman as exclusive child raiser." Schearer links this objection to the fundamental criticism of Wattenberg's espousal of Government birth incentives for the sake of international dominance. "There is something distasteful," he says, "about the concept that we should subvert personal aspirations in the democracy of America to the cause of maintaining our world-power status in the 21st century...
...Southerners to be anti-intellectual, unchallenging, sexist and racist. I have struggled to feel comfortable with a society where racists threatened to blow up my grandparents' home because my grandfather helped desegregate the state university in the 1960s. I have struggled to accept a society where intelligent, aggressive women subvert their ambition and fire to be attractive to the men around them. I have struggled to cope with the fact that most of my high school classmates went on to perfectly good schools, joined perfectly good fraternities and sororities and are well on their way to alcoholism...
...Sandinistas are in charge to stay, and our officials are unhappy, fearing that the Nicaraguan government will repress its people and subvert its neighbors. Only two options remain: either invade or let the Sandinistas do what they will. Everything else we can do we already have done...
...phew! As played by Kim Basinger, Nadia lacks what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness. She is simply a whiner. Director Edwards (The Party, S.O.B.) is a great farceur, and he has plenty of classic comic conventions to play with: elegant cars and parties to crash, a decorous wedding to subvert. But glum Nadia defeats him. A film promising knockout knockabout comedy finally seems merely knocked...
...union labor at the Faculty Club and forced workers at the Business School's Kresge dining hall into a different bargaining unit after hiring Marriott to run the cafeteria. Harvard's attempt to defeat the patrolmen's union is just the latest in a series of wrongheaded efforts to subvert unions...