Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they will be eliminated altogether. If a wage earner cannot find a job after eight weeks of search, his family will receive the standard welfare payment of $4,200 a year. When he lands a job, the family benefits drop back to $2,300. Above all, this phase of the program keeps the family intact. The father is not tempted to leave home so that his family can collect welfare...
...Phase I-ranging from four weeks for advanced meditators to eight weeks for beginners-costs $245 a week, including room and board. Phase II, which took its first American trainees last month, consists of four two-week packages and costs $3,000. TM has revealed few details about the flying lessons, but it does offer a suggestion or two: it may be less distracting to fly with someone of your own sex, and it is best to fly only over a mattress because landings are usually bumpy...
...sense, it could be argued that Begin's visit ended the first phase of Carter's Middle East peace offensive. He has now met, and easily charmed, all the key leaders on both sides-except, of course, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat. Now the President must run the risk of souring some of those good relations by applying pressure to win a compromise. The Arab leaders clearly expect the U.S. to nudge its client, Israel, to the bargaining table and make what Cairo and Damascus regard as a reasonable peace settlement. If Carter cannot fulfill those expectations, the result...
Everyone knows the cat has a libidinous reputation. Phrases like "tomcatting around" and "cat houses" are part of the language. Few may know that cats can copulate eight times in 20 minutes, which helps to account for the 13 million kittens born in the U.S. every year. The final phase of intercourse is quite painful to the female. In the cat family, the release of the eggs for fertilization requires a triggering mechanism. The device is supplied by prickly spines that cover the penis and rake out the female on its withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows...
...deliberate snub of the parade of past champions, McEnroe's behavior was no more reprehensible than that of a high-spirited schoolboy-which he is. McEnroe's remarkable odyssey came to an end in his semifinal match with Connors. Betrayed by his serve-always the last phase of a youngster's game to come under control -McEnroe succumbed in four sets...