Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There are some strange anomalies. The Republicans class Iowa as only leaning toward their candidate, but the Democrats consider the state strong Reagan. Returning the favor, the Republicans in September rated Massachusetts as strong Carter, while the Democrats thought it was only tending their way. Only now do the Carterites concede that, yes, the Bay State is strong for the President...
...warfare. Despite the Soviet introduction of improved ballistic missiles, the U.S. still has 10,000 nuclear warheads, compared with the Soviets' 6,000. Says Brown: "I would say that the trends are not now in their favor because we are modernizing submarine-launched missiles, we have a new class of Trident submarines and a new ballistic missile on the way. We're another five or more years away from, but surely on the road to, an ICBM replacement that will be as capable as any of theirs-and survivable. Theirs...
ECONOMICS: THE MAN BEHIND THE MODELS. "I have a class at 10:30.1 don't think that this will be an occasion for missing class." That was the response of Economist Lawrence Klein, 60, last week when a reporter telephoned him asking for a comment on the news that he had just won the Nobel Prize. The University of Pennsylvania professor was cited for his contributions as "the leading research worker within the field of the economic science which deals with the construction and analysis of empirical models of business fluctuations...
...gourmet business is obviously prospering on the small clientele that is willing to pay $30 per lb. for Scotch salmon or $345 for a 14-oz. tin of fresh Russian Beluga caviar. But the shops are also attracting large numbers of middle class customers who believe food is more than just fuel...
...gratin who came there to take the waters, exchange scandal in the Pump Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous in social tone, it helped save them from the hateful obsequiousness of modern society painting. For Gainsborough was his own man: not a grand one, but not a toady or a leech either. "Damn Gentlemen," he once wrote. "There...