Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lately come to be regarded as a matter of personal gratification unconnected with social responsibility or, of course, with sin. Even among U.S. Catholics the trend is toward the belief that any individual act whatever is acceptable if it can be thought to foster love or self-esteem and enrich the life of the participants. The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that self-gratification alone is morally dangerous and that sex must be linked to commitment to marriage, children, the family, society-that its pursuit must be a reinforcement of fidelity rather than an encouragement to promiscuity...
...named the Real Paper's Most Smug Theater of 1976. I learned to fear so-called "art films" and the theaters that screen them at a very early age, when I was dragged to a seedy little known theater in Detroit to see a "beautiful and sensitive film" and enrich my culturally deprived life. This place was formerly a neighborhood show that had been forced out of business by television, but with foresight that soon proved brilliant, the owners had installed an espresso machine, hung up some foreign posters, raised the admission and re-christened it the Studio Theatre...
...women. But she insists the fog has been clearing since the 1977 agreement with Harvard which specifically defined and enlarged Radcliffe's role in policymaking and gave the Radcliffe Corporation financial autonomy. With guidelines established and financial independence achieved, Radcliffe is now free to develop new programs to enrich the lives of undergraduate women, she says. In short, she believes Radcliffe is on the rebound...
...voluntary guidelines limit of 7%, are made possible because of the rich flow of federal aid to states and localities. In many cases, the money for the raises is available because federal largesse pays for programs that the legislatures would otherwise have to fund. Government programs will this year enrich state and city coffers by $82 billion, an amount more than double the projected federal budget deficit of $33.2 billion. Thus Washington finds itself handing out cash that is being used to undermine its fight against soaring living costs, which are now climbing at an annual rate...
...dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium. Pug's wife Rhoda, pining at home in Washington, starts her own chain reaction with an Army colonel...