Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunacy, a long-term resident of the capital, also attended the Civil Aeronautics Board. When Alfred Kahn was chairman (before he moved on to enforce Carter's anti-inflation policies), he ordered his staff to write in straightforward quasi-conventional prose. But by his own reckoning he achieved only "41.3% success." As evidence Kahn offered a departmental rejection slip: "The involved document, though clothed in diplomatic costume, is no more than a transmittal note and is, thus, of no decisional significance." "There was nothing I could do but cry," Kahn lamented. "I felt so lonely and futile...
...language is synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language has been besieged by vulgarities. But it has also been enriched by vigorous phrases and terms. To those who speak and write with care, those words are the unmistakable beats of life...
...Tehran regime has worked to improve the condition of women. Nearly 40% of the students in Iran's universities are women. The government-financed Women's Organization of Iran has set up day care centers, marriage counseling centers and classes to teach women to read and write. Women now do much of the farm work, form a substantial proportion of the skilled manual labor force and serve in the army and navy...
...grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self-rule through a village council set up by Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's son Zakriya can read and write (unlike his father) because the government sent four teachers to Lashkar-Abad. The Shah, says the farmer, is "khehlee khoob " (very good...
Ladies and gentlemen, there are 500 reasons why I began to write for children, but to save time I will mention only ten of them...