Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 14% of the women felt that way. In all, 65% of the women resented sexual looks, gestures or touching, compared with only 35% of the men. One firm conclusion that can be drawn from the report: as more women rise to supervisory positions, it will become harder to tell who is chasing whom around the desk...
...Barth was hailed as a fabulist in the '60s. He was actually becoming a school of one. Following hints in his own work and examples out of Beckett, Borges and Nabokov, he evolved assumptions that increasingly governed his fiction. Among them: the number of stories to tell is finite and dwindling; print has been rendered passe by film and electronics; realism is an irrational goal for the writer (What is real? Whose reality is it?); art rehashes art. Barth's response was to exalt artifice and make telling the subject of the tale. Giles Goat...
...than those with their protesting teachers. When I had lunch in the Situation Room with a group of Harvard professors, their objections to the Cambodian decision illustrated that hyperbole was not confined to the Administration. One distinguished professor gave it as his considered analysis that "somebody had forgotten to tell the President that Cambodia was a country; he acted as if he didn't know this." Another declared that we had provoked
...development, says the Core may help attract alumni contributors. "It's of fairly high interest in terms of conversation," he says. But since most of the campaign's advance donations come from loyal contributors who don't specify where they want their gifts spent, it's hard to tell how many dollars the Core will attract, he adds...
...year. Edison, which has no desire to lose such business to MATEP, also holds the final trump. It's the only company that can provide backup for Harvard, but to do so, it must invest $10 or $15 million in an essential step-down station. Edison spokesmen smugly tell you that if MATEP wants to buy backup power for 20,000 of the plant's 30,000 kilowatts, it will cost about $1 million a year. "If that's the case," says one, "you might as well forget the whole thing...