Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bright Young Men. Two factors account for the present pilot pinch: low training quotas in the early 1960s, plus the serious drain imposed by the U.S. civilian airlines, which need 6,000 new pilots every year to man rapidly expanding jet fleets and get 85% of them from the Navy and Air Force (which spend more than $150,000 to train each of them). "Look," explains one frustrated Air Force general, "we send a guy to Viet Nam for a year. Then he's supposed to be reunited with his family, but he's sent to Spain...
...John's account, Pilate does not wait for a reply, which inspired Francis Bacon to begin his essay Of Truth with the words: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer...
...that had to be allotted to occasional (some 90 per year) high-priced stakes races to which the track contributes anywhere from $20,000 to $125,000 of the total purse. Only one horse in hundreds is of stakes caliber, and the rewards for owners of ordinary thoroughbreds-which account for 90% of all the races and an equivalent percentage of the state's income-can be small indeed...
Most of us who take Ec 1 enter the course expecting an objective account of basic economic principles, and anticipating discussions of various alternative economic policies. And most of us come out of the course thinking we've gotten just that. The course readings attempt carefully to distinguish between economic principles (presumably objective and even scientific) and political ideas (subject to debate). In Ec 1 the range of the latter is relatively limited, and largely restricted to issues of fiscal and monetary policy. Should we have some more government expenditures here, a tax cut there? Should we have guidelines...
...drop sheer as a crude gravestone . . . Patterns of Horror. Evtushenko's "Babi Yar" helped create a Soviet climate in which this Babi Yar, "a documentary novel," could be published last fall in Russia, where it was widely read and acclaimed. The first full-length account for Russians of Kiev's years under the German occupation, Babi Yar is fictional only in narrative form, not fact. Novelist Kuznetsov, a gentile, was twelve years old when the Nazis arrived; he spent the next two years in Kiev discovering war and deprivation along with his own manhood. He has taken...