Word: surest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a recluse could fail to know somebody who uses less ingenuity in living than in worrying and guarding against subtle hazards. Perhaps the surest sign that the admonitory mood is taking a toll is the fact that Americans have begun to write advice columnists about the problems that all the cautions cause. Warnings about cholesterol in eggs, nitrate in bacon, caffeine in coffee (and, a while back, risky chemicals in even the decaffeinated variety) have sapped the fun out of eating breakfast for some people, it seems. Wrote one such: "I'd try bread and water...
...surest way to enjoy Yanks is to come to it with precisely the right expectations. This film is so lavish, so long (2 hr. 20 min.) and so overstuffed with talent that one at first expects an epic of Homeric proportions. As it gradually turns out, Director John Schlesinger has a trifle up his sleeve, not a bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts...
...vestment, vs. West Germany's 15% and Japan's 20%. Consequently, the country is living off - and eating up - its capital stock. Its plants and machines are aging, its competitive edge in world markets is softening, its productivity growth is falling, and its prices are soaring. The surest way to return to noninflationary increases in living standards would be to enhance productivity, and the best means to do that is by stimulating savings and investment...
...surest way to ease the upward pressure on prices is an economic slowdown, and the TIME economists see signs of recession proliferating. In April, personal income rose by an anemic .3%, down from 1.2% in March. The real volume of retail sales has declined during most of the year so far, and car sales are falling. The index of leading indicators has dipped for three straight months. From March to April, industrial production dropped 1% and housing starts fell 2%. The nation's savings banks had a record net outflow of $1.1 billion last month. Since savings banks provide...
...misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence was correct as it stood. The quickest and surest correct answers to all three questions were provided by Little Rock's Montgomery, who mans his hot line during morning hours. His number...