Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ansara cited figures that show electricity costs for large consumers account for only 1 to 2 per cent of their overall budgets...
...Galilee, Arabs now account for 47% of the population. Within a decade, Koenig warned, "it is seriously to be feared that there will be an Arab takeover, demographically and politically, in Acre and Nazareth...
...World Almanac knows, disasters are usually ranked solely according to the number of lives lost. Writing in The Professional Geographer, Geography Professor Harold D. Foster at British Columbia's University of Victoria suggests that this kind of ranking is simplistic because it fails to take into account the psychological stress and environmental damage that survivors must cope with...
...facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a literary rarity, a highly readable, deeply learned, thoroughly fascinating account of 2,000 years of Christian history...
Houses Afloat. Allen accumulates the details until his account reads like one repeating tableau of purple waves, elms falling, houses collapsing, corpses in shoes and socks-all other clothes having literally blown off. Only the very sturdy and the very fragile seemed to survive, like the Sandwich glass and blue china dug up later on one New England beach...