Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to promise a way out. He rejects the materialist fallacy--still dominant in psychobiology--which downplays the power of ideas and emotions. Sperry believes that materialism is the only obstacle which prevents a fusion of science and religion, and that his solution to the mind-brain problem has broken down the barrier between the two. And if anyone could link science and ethics, Sperry, an excellent researcher who cares deeply about ethical questions, would be the man. Sperry is also the only Nobel prize-winning scientist to have majored in English at college...
Bozzotto said the University could bring the issue up at the negotiations and the union's negotiating committee would decide how to respond to its objections. A federal mediator should not be brought into the talks unless contract negotiations have broken down, Bozzotto added, calling mediation "an admission of failure...
...grossly exaggerated, and that he did not know in advance that Coventry would be destroyed by the Luftwaffe on Nov. 14, 1940. Some World War II historians have contended that the pugnacious Prime Minister sacrificed the city and its inhabitants to keep the Germans from realizing that England had broken their code...
Aggravating the controversy was Stern's angry charge that Newsweek, after withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will...
December 10, 1975: "Indonesia is having trouble convincing the world that military intervention in Timor is justified in part because of the unexpectedly strong reaction from Portugal itself...Lisbon has broken relations with Indonesia and the Portuguese Foreign Minister has branded Jakarta's actions an 'unqualified act of armed aggression...