Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marjorie Garber, professor of English evidently figures that Harvard students read enough Shakespeare in her two courses, and she stays clear of the bard's plays in her recommendations. She does suggest, however, reading the sonnets, as well...
...bill has been sidetracked, the idea of delaying retirement remains a plausible way to ease the burden on the system. Beginning this year, Social Security laws offer a 3% increase in eventual retirement benefits for each year that workers stay on the job past their 65th birthday; some experts suggest raising that bonus to 8% or 10%. House Majority Leader James Wright, another Texas Democrat, talks of substituting income tax credits for each year of continued employment past...
While yesterday's high flyers are out of fashion, traditional investments like bonds, stocks and even bank accounts are back in favor. Many financial advisers suggest that their clients look at bonds. Says James Sinclair, a onetime gold bug: "The next big play out there is not gold, but Treasury bills and bonds." By buying an AAA-rated corporate bond issued by a blue-chip company like American Telephone & Telegraph or International Business Machines, an investor can count on making 14% on his money for ten years or more. If inflation stays at about 5%, that represents a good...
...values such as those expressed by Mr. Pattullo, most gays and lesbians" would not feel that they suffered from a disability. I suspect it is impossible to expunge from consciousness the high value heterosexuals place on that aspect of life. The main point of my original letter was to suggest that GLAD should acknowledge this and not equate the toleration it properly seeks with positive approval of gay life by those who think it less desirable than heterosexuality...
Finally, Ms. Brown seeks to discomfort me with an analogy between gays and Blacks, which totally reject. None would suggest that changes in the environment could give anyone a choice as to his or her race, and neither science nor the sum of human experience provide any basis for valuing one race above another. If Ms. Brown understands this distinction I think it is wrong for her to invoke an identity between gays and Blacks simply because both groups have been subjected to unfair discrimination. E.L. Pattullo...