Word: account
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Beyond their relatively small deposits, the only monetary stake the airlines have had in the SST until now has been an agreement to help the Government recoup its investment by paying royalties once their planes are delivered. To be sure, the "progress payments" will not account for much of the two prototypes' estimated $5 billion cost, 90% of which will be paid by the Government. But the airlines' show of confidence could have some clout with an ornery Congress that includes liberal Democrats who fear the poverty program will suffer from...
Amid the flood of nonfiction about the Kennedy era and its end, Bourjaily's new novel is the first effort to capture its impact in fiction. His book emerges as a civilized and affecting account of how the generation closest to Kennedy in age and aspirations took his death...
...Times' correspondent is correct and sources in Washington indicated last night that he is, the commission will propose that draftees be selected at random from a pool of 18 to 20-year olds. According to this account, all men who pass a physical and mental test would be put into the pool. Those not drafted could be sure they would not serve, except in a national emergency...
...report with providing grounds for a massive white "cop out" by means of "a new form of subtle racism that might be termed 'Savage Discovery,' and seduces the reader into believing that it is not racism and discrimination but the weaknesses and defects of the Negro himself that account for the present status of inequality...." One recalls the character in a Disraeli novel said to have been "distinguished for ignorance, in that he had but one idea and that was wrong." Ryan's one idea was that I was obsessed with illegitimacy; I should never have raised the subject...
...moon. In addition to tidal heating and volcanic activity on the moon as it approached perigee, great chunks may well have been torn from the lunar surface-only to fall back onto the moon near apogee, when the earth's gravitational force was lessened. This recurring bombardment could account for the moon's pock-marked face. Singer calculates that within a few thousand years after the encounter, the moon's orbit decayed from an elongated ellipse into a near-circular path only about 10,000 miles above the earth. At this point, it was in near-synchronous...