Word: correspondent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal for a people of less than 3,000,000, living in the small area we possess, to do what we have done. Our military posture, our scientific and technological achievements, our economic volume do not correspond with these dimensions...
Statistics are not currently available for Cambridge's other social service agencies, but a spokesman for the City said yesterday that he is "quite sure" the results in areas such as housing and health will correspond to the education figures...
Tout Va Bien is the first fictional film the group has made. Its plot, such as it is, is this: Him (Yves Montand) is a former director of art films who now makes commercial advertisements to avoid hypocrisy. Her (Jane Fonda) is his wife, an American television correspondent ("I am an American correspondent in France, but I correspond to nothing"). Out to interview the manager of the Salumi food-processing factory, Him and Her find Themselves locked up in the plant by striking workers. They spend the night thus exposed to the reality of class warfare and are set free...
...analogy that may help clarify Harvard's reasons for its investment policies could be made between the endowment and a fruit-bearing tree. "Income" would correspond to the fruit, while capital gains would correspond to the growth in the size of the tree. Under Harvard's investment policies, only the fruit is allowed to be picked and sold for money to cover current university expenditures. The additional growth of the tree, in terms of new branches and height, should not be chopped off and sold for firewood because if this is done, the amount of fruit will not increase next...
...speech whose particular function is to distort psychological intentions into a form which makes them seem natural and universal. The target of Barthes's investigation is the bourgeois, who tries to escape from history into myths such as "the nation" or "the human condition"--mythical universals which actually correspond only to changing, human creations...