Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Walesa takes criticisms of his contradictory manner in stride. He sees himself as a peacemaker among Solidarity's moderate and radical factions. Says he: "My job is to unite them. I scale down the militants and raise up the mildest...
...similar transformation, on a much larger scale, has brought the boom to downtown Boise. One example: the Idanha Hotel was an 80-year-old turreted monstrosity that once boasted visits by Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan but eventually deteriorated into...
Earthly Powers attempts to do both on a large scale. The book is a high entertainment. It is, at 600 pages, also long enough to display Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...Organized for Security (SOS) last year, and reviewed the survey's results with Steiner yesterday--said yesterday she worries that so many women fear for their personal safety on campus at night. In the study, women and men rated themselves on how "constrained" they felt at night, from a scale of one (least constrained) to five. Women rated themselves an average of 3.3, while men averaged 1.9. Radcliffe Union of Students critized the report for not making any recommendations to improve security and for not offering a breakdown of the results by race and by Quad or river residence...
...aimed at drawing people back into the city. So far it's been successful; young working couples no longer flee to the suburbs, they rent fashionable brownstone apartments in the Shadyside quarter or buy and restore one of many beautiful but dilapidated "Pittsburgh style" houses, built on a grand scale around the turn of the century...