Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tampering with COLAS. This opposition is basically driven not by economic calculation but by plain fear of a poverty-ridden old age-and this fear is an understandably powerful motivation. Like many other retired couples, Evan Francis, 75, and his wife Mildred, 77, of Los Angeles, wrongly interpret any talk of lower future benefits as a threat to the $582 a month they receive from Social Security. Says Evan: "If the Government cuts it off, there would be a revolution in the streets...
...task for philosophers, Marx said, is not to interpret the world, but to change it. As Hickok never pretends to philosophy, there can be no faulting her unwillingness to call for change. What a reader finds in her reporting, instead, might prove more enduring. With her sensitivity, her thirst for detail, and above all, her sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers...
...intent of the ordinance was unclear, and allowed a Cambridge woman who moved into her apartment after the 1979 date to buy her unit as a condo He state the original law did not specify the 1979 date and added that the rent control board could not legally interpret the council's intent in denying removal permits to post 1979 tenants...
...paring down the amount that they owe the Government (see box). Says Paul D. Koehler, a partner of Touche Ross & Co., one of the leading accounting firms: "I'm up to my neck in tax forms. There's a tremendous amount of demand for us to interpret the new tax laws." Richard W. Earp, a partner in the Minneapolis office of Arthur Andersen & Co., noted that the bulk of new business has come from wealthy individuals, who are the biggest beneficiaries of last year's tax changes...
...deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency-picked up his pointer again to conduct last week's briefing on Nicaragua's military buildup. Hughes' performance was professionally impressive, yet questions remained about the reliability of the evidence he was called upon to interpret...