Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time it gets to Phoenix. From the very first chapter (when one member of a surveillance team, looking down at a seemingly-dead desert town, says "We'd better go down and take a look"), Crichton's reader is sucked into the kind of Saturday afternoon fantasy that used to be the staple of movie house matinees during the fifties, and still shows up with welcome regularity on all those Million Dollars Movies. Nevertheless, the book is unbelievably suspenseful...
...third objective is to establish better understanding among a select group of people who will be in top leadership roles in their countries in the years ahead...
...more political reason for involvement was sited by Mohamed Berjaoui, a Lebanese ambassador and former MP. He explained, "I had a more selfish reason. My first purpose was to give a better idea of my own country. We are Americans to have a more objective misunderstood over here and I want view of Lebanon. My participation in the seminar has also helped my colleagues have a clearer understanding of my country...
University officials have opposed the proposal to build low-income housing on Shady Hill. Other sites currently being studied by Harvard are more appropriate for this use, Goyette said, since they have better transportation facilities, and are closer to local shopping areas...
...trap the poacher because he believes that one man's guilt is inconsequential compared with the monstrous shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack Kendriks, chief of the fire fighters, who at 39 feels that younger, better-educated men are catching up on him, helps Replogle escape with his poached meat, in a humanistic act of generosity from one defeated man to another...