Word: affectation
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Under Miller's patient probing, any number of dread disorders may be identified. The anxiety syndrome and dominance frustration affect a dog who thinks that its master is too unmanly to protect the home; the animal feels that it must boss the household, and so attacks anybody who comes around. The secretary syndrome arises when the master works late at the office; the dog becomes tense and irritable because its master is not at home on time. In barrier frustration, the dog gets infuriated because it cannot break its lesh. Psychosexual misorientation is something esle...
...rules. Negotiator Roth's Washington office has set up a special phone number (202-395-3044) for specifics on the new U.S. duties, which cover imports worth $8 billion a year. But details on the revised tariffs of each of the 49 Kennedy Round nations, which affect $40 billion in annual trade, may be some time in getting around: covering thousands of farm and factory items in painstaking detail, the entire list runs to 4,000 pages...
Modest and mixed though it may be, the improvement was especially welcome, since the downturn that had been hurting Detroit seemed not to affect imports. In fact, sales of foreign-made autos are running 14% ahead of last year, when a record 658,000 imports were sold in the U.S., and foreign automakers now expect to sell better than 700,000 cars by year's end. The likelihood of an import record is even more remarkable since Volkswagen, though still accounting for well over half of all imports, is selling no more cars in the U.S. than...
...deferments is not expected to affect the college graduating class of 1967. It will take at least six months for the Executive to draw up the new regulations governing deferment...
...properties, have tightened up an unwieldy piece of theatre. The mounting racket of loudspeakers and the only rarely excessive musical numbers create a rhythm which jars the principals past MacBird's remaining snags. John Seitzg, who stood in on Philip Hanson's MacBird last week, was purple with Texas affect and--but for an inexplicable and apparently deliberate resemblance to F.D.R.--vehemently convincing. William Lafe, Roger Davis and Kevin O'Neal provide three mail-order Ken O'Duncs who slip in and out of Kennedese; Jill Clayburgh, Roger Robinson and Louis Galterie are verveful witches. Lady McB. (Nancie Phillips) drives...