Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them is worth a damn." Other epithets include "dinks" and "slopes." Peasants are obviously unhappy when U.S. tanks crunch through their rice fields or helicopter gunners fire at water buffalo-or at the peasants themselves. American affluence, symbolized by the PXs bulging with U.S. wares, stands in sharp contrast to the widespread poverty in Viet Nam. Rigid security precautions, however necessary, are also a source of resentment. Every day thousands of Vietnamese workers, men and women, line up outside U.S. bases like cattle moving into a chute to be frisked before they start the day's work...
Surviving a Slowdown. Burns has suggested that a recession might not be so bad. He has often said that the U.S. can survive a business slowdown, or even downturn, without necessarily incurring a sharp increase in unemployment. He reasons that the economy has become service-oriented, and that service workers are less likely to be laid off than those in manufacturing. Even in manufacturing, he thinks, shortages of skilled labor have been so severe that companies will continue to hoard workers rather than fire them as sales and profits decline...
BOOKS I LOVE by John Kieran. 200 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Playing the old "books I would take to a desert is land" game, the author provides fond essays on his largely predictable choices, and an occasional sharp judgment (Rousseau is "an intellectual sharper"). Information pleasing mainly to readers who prefer Masefield to Donne, Tennyson and Kipling to Eliot...
This practices came under sharp attack last spring when nine of the thirteen scholarship students on probation for thePaine Hall sit-in had their scholarships reduced. Critics charged the reduction represented an additional punishment to which non-scholarships students were not subjected...
Under the sponsorship of Tom Schelling, the Center is supporting the research of Gene Sharp, a committed anti-Pentagon pacifist, who is trying to explore the ways by which a disarmed populace can deal with military tyrants...