Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Lewontin dismisses theories like these as "barroom generalizations." Indeed, sociobiologists seem prone to concoct theories to explain a wide array of human problems. Harvard Biologist Robert L. Trivers presented the convention with his sociobiological view of parent-child relationships. Conflict is built in, he said, because parents divide their genetic investment-and their attention-among their children; while each child has a 100% investment in itself and struggles for 100% of the parents' time...
...Glomar Explorer haul up a 5,500-ton weight from the ocean floor? Taking cues from tiny radio beacons placed near the sub, a computer aboard the ship directed an array of water jets and propellers that kept the Glomar-and its suspended claws-in place against waves and currents...
...acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows back among the newly planted trees...
...Pray to God; she will hear us," runs the standard feminist gibe at "sexism" in the churches. More churchmen, as well as churchwomen, are beginning to agree that there is something to gibe about. Despite the array of strong women in the Old Testament and Jesus' easy assumption of sexual equality in the New, they contend that paternalistic traditions and the very language of faith need to be revised...
California--In a state that has cooked up a dazzling array of eccentric political personalities, the current Senate contest between Democratic Senator John F. Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa is certainly not an anomaly. Hayakawa, a conservative folk-hero from the days of campus unrest, has launched his political casreer at the ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls...