Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst misjudgments followed. As recently as 1967 the head of the Middle East Studies Association wrote a report for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare asserting that the region including the Middle East and North Africa was not a center of cultural achievement, nor was it likely to become one in the near future. The study of the region or its languages, therefore, did not constitute its own reward so far as modern culture is concerned. High school textbooks routinely produced descriptions of Islam like the following: "It was started by a wealthy businessman of Arabia called Muhammad...
...effects of the strike and lockout quickly dented the operations of a wide variety of manufacturing industries. Worst off were the automakers, who stock only a few days' supply of some components. General Motors was forced to cut production and lay off 30,100 hourly workers indefinitely. Ford reduced shifts at 19 of its North American plants. Chrysler closed almost its entire U.S. operation, laying off 77,000 employees in 37 plants...
...until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week where everybody put his worst fears and dreads together...
...must be admitted that on some primitive dramatic level Old Boyfriends works. We care about Diane, mostly because Shire is capable of engendering a great deal of sympathetic concern; there is intelligence and vulnerability in her every expression. But there are jarring contradictions in this movie. The worst lies in the sweetness of Shire's manner and the brutal actions required of her by a confused script. The Belushi character perhaps deserves what happens to him, but the sequence is so farcically overstated that it is not much more than a mistake in tone. The rape of Carradine...
...perplexed. How can deButts believe that his control over a single multibillion dollar corporation justifies his having political power rivaling that of most elected officals in areas in which he has no expertise? After three years at Harvard and a summer in Washington, I had expected the worst from our government, so it was no surprise that corporate dollars buy political power. But I hardly believe the corporate attitude that such practices are natural and right, that the corporate chiefs are acting out of a sense of nobless oblige...