Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carey's other troubles are growing. He still does not know how the state will borrow $4 billion beginning in April for routine subsidies to local government, and though Carey led in saving New York City from bankruptcy, new doubts have arisen about the city's ability to carry out the long-range financial plan that is supposed to lead to a balanced budget by June 1978. When reminded last week of speculation that his chances for higher office are diminishing, Carey smiled and said, "That's welcome news. I have no intention of seeking national office...
...biology, Wilson's book is primarily a synthesis of work, published in the last decade, that has not previously been considered very controversial except in a scientific sense, and Wilson notes this ongoing scientific debate constantly. Given the importance of sociobiological studies it is not surprising that controversies have arisen; what is exciting is the possibility that many of these disagreements can be resolved on empirical grounds...
...generalities throughout animal societies), but from a speculative reconstruction of human prehistory. This reconstruction includes the familiar themes of territoriality, big-game hunting with females at home minding the kids and gathering vegetables...and a particular emphasis on warfare and the salutary advantages of genocide. But these arguments have arisen before and have been strongly rebutted both on the basis of historical and anthropological studies. (See for instance A. Alland, The Human Imperative or M.F.A. Montagu, Man and Agression...
...give more candidates and their supporters a better chance of sending delegates to the national convention. They dropped the winner-take-all system and decided that any candidate receiving at least 15% of the statewide vote should get a corresponding percentage of delegates. Much of the current confusion has arisen as state legislatures have tried to translate those national rules into specific election laws...
According to Kirkpatrick Sale, Johnson's scatological hijinks can be explained in terms of a structure of economic and political power that has arisen in the United States since World War II. This structure, which Sale refers to as "The Southern Rim," has a character, morality, culture and interests distnct from those of the Eastern Establishment, dividing the nation into "rimsters," or "cowboys," and "yankees." Sporadically, this tension bursts into the open, as it did in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40 and in the drive to impeach Richard Nixon...