Word: rangement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elbow with a moralizing aside. His metaphorical flights can plummet ludicrously, as when he compares the cross section of a moment in history to a severed leg of lamb, "where you see the ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from...
...some, old age means giving up solitary independence and moving in with their children. Sometimes that works out well. Edna Segar, 74, who plays the piano in a Culver City, Calif., senior citizens' dance band, finds the ar rangement fine. So do her son Donald, 54, and his wife Frances, 59. Says Donald: "You wouldn't throw your kids out, so you don't throw your parents out when they need...
...IATA representatives in Montreal this summer while pickets protested their secret meetings, came after members began underpricing each other with youth fares. It calls for retention of the student prices for ages 12 to 21 and introduction of an advance-purchase excursion plan. Under APEX, as the ar rangement is called, passengers who buy their tickets 90 days ahead of time would receive substantial fare reductions. Lufthansa considered APEX to be "too expensive to administer and too difficult to police," as one official of the German line put it. "We're against overcomplicating the situation." Nevertheless...