Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to feature stories like punk rock, I suggest you create a new section called Perversions. There is no way these kids could be considered simply rebellious. Anyone who would wear raw meat on the front of a costume is trying to do more than merely rebel...
...political power may prove more troublesome for Hua than rehabilitating his policies. One reason is that the new Chairman's claim to legitimacy rests on Mao's supposed deathbed benediction of his leadership. Thus the restored presence of Teng, who was twice ousted by Mao, may suggest to party workers that Hua is vulnerable. The Chairman, in fact, is a relatively youthful (56) political newcomer without a power base in the party or the armed forces to bolster his position. Moreover, Teng has become something of a national hero because of his feisty, down-to-earth opposition...
...sociobiology, a new and highly controversial scientific discipline that seeks to establish that social behavior?human as well as animal?has a biological basis. Its most striking tenet: human behavior is genetically based, the result of millions of years of evolution. Some sociobiologists go so far as to suggest that there may be human genes for such behavior as conformism, homosexuality and spite. Carried to an extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms and is the stuff of genes...
Managing Editor Henry Grunwald certainly was correct in describing the pervasive fear among white South Africans [June 27] as well as "their . . . remoteness from the world and from reality." But TIME magazine, like many others, is reluctant to suggest just what should be done...
...Might I suggest the following: 1) pay more attention to the unofficial but legitimate black leadership there that is drowned out by government propaganda; 2) urge U.S. multinational corporations to raise the wages of their black workers, hire and fire on merit, and institute training programs for middle-level and management positions; 3) cut the hypocrisy and try to merge our diplomatic and economic policies in South Africa. We can no longer "abhor" apartheid and wink at our companies' double-digit returns on investments there, which are the result of the ridiculously low wages paid the African worker...