Word: term
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...religious enterprises, of course, are liable to be damned and dismissed as "cults." The term is pejorative: cult suggests a band of fierce believers who have surrendered themselves to obscure doctrine and a dangerous prophet. Yet some religions that are institutions now, more permanent and stable than most governments, began as cults...
Some labor officials, by contrast, regard the Administration's economy drive with resignation, especially in view of the economizing message that the voters sent to Washington in the mid-term election. Says a top labor official in Washington: "We don't like what we hear, but there's not much we can do about it. I think that the expression we will be hearing the most on the Hill will be: 'I don't dare take a chance. Look at what happened to Dick Clark.' " A liberal Senator from Iowa, Clark went down to unexpected defeat at the hands...
With the time gained by temporary protectionist measures and a subsistence diet of subsidies, Europe's threatened industries must accomplish a formidable task of rejuvenation. In West Germany, Strukturwandel (structural change) is constantly on the lips of industrialists, politicians, economists and union bosses. The term covers a variety of measures: a switch to profitable products, heavy investment in machinery, "rationalization," or reduction of labor forces where warranted, the retraining of surplus workers, even a shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others...
...acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest and West...
...Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...