Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foil fencers move together, their blades meet, there is a flurry of action and the director (i.e. referee) shouts "halt." He glances at the electric lights that indicate whether a fencer has been touched and both the red and green are lighted. He stands puzzled, trying to decide who attacked first, and thus should get the point. His deliberation is interrupted by a shout from the Harvard sideline, "Nice attack, Anne." The director, his memory refreshed, relaxes and remarks confidently, "there's an attack from the right, touch for Harvard...
...reconstruct what happened in his mind. His pondering is interrupted by a fierce cry of "I'm waiting" from an Army assistant coach bearing down on the director with an intimidating stare. The director as much as turning his head in the direction of the shout calls "no touch" and restarts the bout. The Army coach is still waiting...
...unit labor costs in manufacturing, which had risen 45% over the previous two years, increased even further because of automatic cost-of-living increases and social security obligations that have skyrocketed to 100% of a worker's basic salary. These gains, negotiated by militant trade unions, fail to touch a booming black-market labor force of some 8 million who work for low pay and no fringe benefits...
...order had just the man for this Midas direct-mail touch-the Rev. Guide J. Carcich. Trieste-born, he had come to the U.S. as an immigrant and was a parish priest in Baltimore for seven years. He had a taste for worldly things, a born manager's grasp of commerce and a literary flair. IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS, another Carcich flyer began, MESSENGERS OF HOPE. His success was astounding-almost like the miracle of the loaves and fishes...
...There's nothing that people really give a shit about outside of themselves," said Jeffrey B. Hoyt '81, Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life representative for the freshman class, said yesterday. "They're not willing to give time to anything that doesn't touch them directly...