Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to make the soul ache to read that scientists agree that "the biblical account of creation ... may be uncannily close to the truth." The Bible contains all the secrets of man and the universe if only man would search there for the truth...
...David Peled, 60, director of Customs and Excise, was arrested a year ago and suspended from his post, accused of accepting a number of bribes, including one for $35,000. He is also charged with maintaining a foreign currency account in a Swiss bank, which is a violation of Israeli law. Peled is free on bail awaiting trial...
...forward step in modern technology tends to reduce the difference between the older categories of experience. Take, for example, the once elementary distinction between transportation and communication: between moving the person and moving the message. While communication once was an inferior substitute for transportation (you had to read the account because you couldn't get there), it is now often the preferred alternative...
...other battles -or other wars-there will be plenty more. Cross of Iron is the story of the German retreat across Russia after Stalingrad; Dog Soldiers revolves around three Viet Nam veterans who become involved with both heroin and the CIA; and The Eagle Has Landed is a fictional account of a German attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. The towering Tory, a famous old brandy sniffer, would at least like the casting. He is portrayed by the proprietor of the Beehive, a country pub in Kent...
...present assignment system takes into account House occupancy levels, class distribution, and sex ratio. Whether other factors should be introduced is a matter for further discussion. I should note that a goal in the past has been the maintenance of a 1:1 sex ratio in the Quad Houses. Currently the ratio there is about 1.6 to 1 and, since the ratio for the most recently admitted class is 1.9 to 1, this issue may well prove to be less significant than it has been in the past. Nevertheless, because this issue is important to some Quad residents, I favor...