Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppression-this time, physical violence from black and Puerto Rican street toughs and verbal attacks from extremist black leaders. Repeatedly, all-Jewish neighborhoods have become partially or predominantly black or Puerto Rican. A dress-store owner has received phone calls: "Get out, you dirty Jew, or we'll burn...
Elephant Stress. Serengeti's 5,600 square miles and the surrounding 10,000 square miles are home to an estimated 1,500,000 big game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off trees to create pasture land, elephants topple trees. It had been believed previously that the elephants felled trees simply for food. Croze argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number...
...saving at an unprecedented rate of 7.3% of his income, and banks have tried to attract more deposits by offering gifts like appliances, luggage and wigs for women. The average American family has a fat $7,610 put away in savings accounts. Usually, a lot of money begins to burn a hole in the consumer's pocket, and a splurge of spending begins. But the usual consumer psychology may have changed. Last week George Katona, a consumer expert who heads the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, reported that the consumer's confidence is low and still falling...
...their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down the Mission, for example, starts out like' a country stroll and ends like a hell-bent Georgia stagecoach...
...Vietnamese- correcting their translators when necessary. Even the high school students have joined in the fracas. As early as August, they announced a campaign to "abolish corrupted culture" (i.e., American influence) by "boycotting every kind of sex-appeal magazines poisoning the soul of Vietnamese youth," and threatening to "burn all the sex magazines in the bookshops all over the streets of Saigon...