Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time elapsed since golf's genesis in those Scottish hinterlands, Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin has been the game's greatest chronicler. Although Darwin is indisputably the best golf writer who ever lived, many also rate him the greatest sportswriter to set ink on paper, and that estimation takes into account such noteworthy members of the genus as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner...
...food and water, sealed itself off from the outside world when it felt America became heretical--when American joined a world federation. The narrator wanders in the halls of this ultimate bureaucracy looking for a mission of his own. There is no mention of where he was before the account starts. The only personality the reader gleans is the narrator's tireless urge to search. He is no one in particular, looking to be somebody--anybody. His search is timeless. The setting and the sense of ceaseless frustration speak to the citizens of a corporate...
...therefore does not represent a real curtailment in the long-term spending program. In fact, by stretching out the purchasing of these weapons rather than terminating them entirely, the Carter administration may in the long run increase their total cost, once the anticipated effects of inflation are taken into account...
...passing idea belonged to Peter Lorenz, 54, president of the West Berlin parliament. After reading of U.S. storm ravages, he appealed to Berliners to help those who had helped them, and set up an account with the German Red Cross to receive contributions. Thousands responded. Within eight days, $208,333 was collected from those who remembered. Said a 31-year-old engineer: "It is our way of saying 'Thank you' for what you have done for us." Germany's most famous boxer, former Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, now 71, donated $400. A war widow of 75 added...
...public. It encompasses protests against the location of dams massively certified by science, opposition to the erection of nuclear power plants declared to be safe and sound, open disputes about the real values of scientifically approved medicines, and the increasing willingness of patients to sue physicians to make them account for mistakes in treatment. Sci-Tech, in a sense, has been demoted from its demigodhood. The public today rallies, in its untidy way, around the notion that Hans J. Morgenthau put into words in Science: Servant or Master?. "The scientist's monopoly of the answers to the questions...