Word: standard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching the spectacle of politicians clawing for invitations to the White House receptions and then basking in the reflected spiritualism recalled stories of 20 years ago, when John Kennedy was running hard for office while running away from any public chumminess with Popes or their standard-bearers...
...opening scene, famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...
...party was to raise money and to raise consciousness," Eugene J. Green '80, president of BSA, said yesterday, adding "The standard donation was $1, but some students gave five...
...Standard operating procedure in all branches of the service is to keep pregnant women at their jobs as long as possible. Then they are transferred to light duty or put on sick leave. In practice, different commanders make different decisions. An Army colonel, just back from Korea, said pregnant soldiers "were making the forced marches with all their equipment." Yet some officers try to get such women out of the way early. Says Rear Admiral James R. Hogg, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: "The bottom line is, we'll get her transferred before she becomes...
...conservation technology exists. The National Academy of Science has studied the possibilities of conservation and reports that by the year 2010 we could be using 20 per cent less energy than we do now, while maintaining virtually the same standard of living--through conservation measures alone. And despite popular misconceptions, we have the solar technology as well--now. The Harvard Business School Energy Project estimates that another 20 per cent of our energy could come from the sun by the year 2000 if the government gives it the high priority it deserves. Both conservation and solar power can be more...