Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong demand for housing, profits and rents go up rapidly. This makes property values go up, too. And when a building is sold at a higher value, the rent goes up again--to pay for higher mortgage and property tax costs, which are based on the property value. This vicious cycle is a major symptom of the housing crisis today...
...Soviet campaign against Alexander Solzhenitsyn took a vicious new turn last week: Soviet authorities pressured the Nobel Prizewinning author's former friends and colleagues-and even his ex-wife-into denouncing him. This time the forum for the attacks was not the controlled Soviet press but newspapers in the U.S. and Europe...
...Vicious Circle. The shortage of women managers is only partly due to discrimination, Hennig and Jardim believe. On the basis of their experience as consultants to such corporations as New England Bell Telephone & Telegraph and the Columbia Broadcasting System, they have discovered that women are held back partly by their own passivity, partly by a vicious circle of misunderstandings. Men tend to assume that women are more interested in marriage or their children than in careers. Women, on the other hand, assume that they will be tolerated only if they are superefficient. So they become experts at one particular...
...Actors Company staging of Knots wraps an hour's worth of such vicious circular logic in music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically...
...accompanied news reports of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's ouster last October. The council dutifully assembled abstracts of network evening news shows and commentaries that touched on the six subjects and requested that Ziegler then tell it which of the approximately 200 specific segments the President considered "outrageous, vicious, distorted...