Word: dec
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...King James version of the Bible is good enough for me without any de-sexing [Dec. 8], but it looks as though feminist nitpickers are going to keep sending Moses back up the mountain for those tab lets until he finally gets it right! God must be shaking his head wondering if Eve was such a good idea...
Your Essay "The Sad Truth About Big Spenders" [Dec. 8] gets me where it hurts. Most of us are your average Joes. We like grand gestures. Big spenders are our fantasies realized. Somewhere along the line they broke out of the mold and temporarily excelled. Now they can throw their money around. Just as we would, if we too made the big time...
...wonders about the good accomplished by these manuals for so-called do-it-yourself lawyers [Dec. 8]. Instead of saving legal costs, they often end by generating far more attorneys' fees-because real lawyers have to straighten out relatively routine matters that have become mired by well-intentioned laymen...
...York returns; a recount is under way. A federal judge in Detroit has ordered adjustments for alleged undercounts there. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to set aside the judge's order so that the 1980 census can be delivered to the President by Dec. 31, as required...
...late last month after the Warsaw local threatened a general strike over a series of political demands, some of which were aimed at the state security apparatus, the bedrock of Communist authority. Said Walesa then: "Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers 80, a film about the strikes, the union raised only a mild protest. A month earlier, such censorship would have provoked a strike threat at the very least...