Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rounded out their scoring in the seventh with a healthy six-run performance that put the Bosox away. Rusty Staub smashed in three runs with his 23rd four-bagger of the year off Jim Wright, while Ron LeFlore chipped in a two-run double and Aurelio Rodriguez singled to account for the other three tallies...
Much of the trouble stemmed from the fact that commercial projects were designed by a small group of Western-educated technocrats, who failed to take into account the profound effect that such changes would have on the Persian psyche. Housing projects, for example, are depressing to most Iranians, whose tradition demands an architectural style that emphasizes seclusion and privacy. Many residents of such projects feel as though they are living in public view, and they detest it. Tehran Sociologist Ehsan Naraghi, who received his doctorate from the Sorbonne, believes that under the pressure of economic development there has been...
Some 350 American companies have invested a total of $1.5 billion in South Africa, and they are the chief purveyors of its modern technology and consumer goods. Ford, South Africa's biggest automaker (1977 sales: 42,874 vehicles), and GM together account for 26% of the automotive market. Goodyear, General and Firestone dominate tire sales; Exxon, Mobil and Caltex are leaders at the fuel pumps. Kellogg's cereals are found on 40% of South Africa's breakfast tables, and Otis elevators convey riders in two of every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data...
...regional official of the Federal Aviation Administration suggested that other, as yet undetermined, factors besides noise may account for the higher death rate. That may be, Meecham acknowledges, but he notes that 220 extra deaths were recorded in the high-noise areas last year. The odds against that kind of difference occurring by chance, he argues, are a thousand...
Brackman seems to have enjoyed his undergraduate career, although academics do not figure prominently in his recollections: "I played a great deal of pool... between the time I spent in the Adams House pool room and The Crimson, I could account for ten hours a day. But it got dangerous at times. There were guys in that room who, without any warning, could shoot two or three racks at any given time...