Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, get ready; here it is. Many new books are opportunistic. Many are cheap. Quite a few are offensive; lots of others are trite. Many are cute, or misleading, or just plain boring. But Dealing, by Douglas and Michael Crichton, goes one step further. Dealing is all of these things-and more...
...Plain Paper Bag. The 1961 constitution took away much of the urban elite's power and gave it to the peasantry, which put Demirel's Justice Party in office in 1965. U.S. support for Demirel's government irritated the urban elite, which consists of students, intellectuals, professionals and a largely leftist press...
...them fair game, and they shudder at incidents such as the one that occurred last week at the residence of U.S. Ambassador William Handley. Even though the usual half a dozen guards were patrolling the area, Handley gulped when he saw his wife answer the doorbell and accept a plain paper bag. It turned out to be filled with avocados sent over by an embassy staffer...
...wage increase, though the beneficiaries might spend more on weekends. Mrs. Poor polled 168 men and women who worked a four-day week and found that 17% were moonlighting, v. only 4% before the switch. But she found big increases in camping and boating, attendance at spectator sports, and plain loafing. Visits to relatives rose by 121%. Economist Paul Samuelson, who has endorsed the idea of the four-day week, suggests another possible result: a change in "the division of labor between husband and wife in the home to redress the ancient curse of female drudgery...
...that Nixon's glowing forecasts of fast production, profit and income growth in 1971 will come true. Since December, Nixon has been publicly implying that the board has a duty to do so; some aides make the argument in private with extraordinary vehemence. Last week Burns made it plain that despite this pressure he will be quite as independent as Nixon advertised and less accommodating than the President hoped...