Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Living and eating well amidst surrounding poverty is easy only if one justifies it with a belief that he is doing something to deserve it, something that makes privilege worthwhile. But Calcutta's intelligentsia seem out of touch with the people they see around them, and they feel their estrangement. There's a joke about the economists charged with increasing India's food production and improving distribution: none of them have ever seen a grainfield in their lives, or even bought their own groceries...
...Loevy, senior director of Israeli television in Tel Aviv, said he "didn't want to touch the Israeli-Arab conflict...I'm fed up with it." Instead he will concentrate on comparable conflicts among other groups and plans to study psychology, music and fine arts...
...setting. Try to leave your fingerprints everywhere you can, and try to leave some personal small item such as a button or earring, anything which can be traced to you. Preserve all physical evidence carefully. Do not bathe, shower, douche, change clothing, comb hair, etc. Try not to touch any object handled by your attacker...
...billion and $90 billion in new savings must be found by 1984 to salvage any hopes of a balanced budget, so either some popular domestic programs will have to be abolished altogether, rather than just trimmed, or the Pentagon will have to share in the reductions. Failure to touch the military budget, concedes one presidential aide, will let critics claim that "the President wants to dismantle the New Deal and replace it with a military-industrial complex." The Reagan congressional strategists hope that by including the military, they can persuade legislators to go along with more slicing of nondefense programs...
...large, though, the Faculty give Lord's office an added touch of prestige. "My brothers and sisters in other press offices have to go out and beat the drums," she says. "Here, people come to us." Lord has, over the years, nurtured many relationships with professors here, and her colleagues elsewhere in the Ivy League speak admiringly of her ability to provide a spokesman for any subject and to make even the most ornery of ornithologists chirp willingly for the press. "She stands apart in her mastery of her resources," Fred Kneubel, director of public relations at Columbia University, says...