Word: pampering
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...this sort of thing is only significant seen in hindsight; after all, the Shah makes a lot of unfulfilled threats in the same paragraph. Your techniques tend to elicit statements that may or may not have any relevance to the way these political figures act, statements that pamper to unsubstantive psychohistory...
Determined as the Point is not to pamper its women cadets, some special measures are being taken. Uniforms designed by Hart Schaffner & Marx will be essentially the same as those worn by men but cut somewhat differently, with a modified, narrower hat and an optional accompanying skirt (except for parade dress, when men and women alike must wear trousers and the regulation tall "tarbucket" hat). Hair must be cut short. Makeup? Yes, but in "good taste." Jewelry? A wristwatch and one ring. No earrings, no bobby pins, no hair ribbons. The women will room together in pairs-but in barracks...
...cities, without any federal guidance. The funds often end up being used for increased control over city dwellers rather than welfare programs. Banfield wants to insure that the lower class members have a chance to make it on their own, and he believes that programs that dwell on and pamper them simply make them soft and ask for more. Welfare feeds on a psychology that keeps its recipients in the urban ghettoes in the first place...
...will be space-the experience of sitting in a cruise-ship-sized cabin, with nearly 300 other passengers and 14 stewardesses. Until the airlines are able to snap out of their current economic doldrums and begin filling their new planes, much of that extra space will be used to pamper the passenger, with roomy lounge and bar areas in economy as well as first-class sections...
...introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico-and you end up in the stew with a paint salesman from Poughkeepsie. "They really pamper you," he says, as a gentleman technician dries his back. "It's just one joy after another...