Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest Conclusions. Wakefield's Supernation began life as a superstory in the Atlantic, filling nearly all of one issue. A subjective oddity is that in the Atlantic, it seemed weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar are clear. But in hard cover, the text seems brief and often irritatingly superficial. Wakefield's viewpoint wavers. At times he is the visitor to a small planet-aloof, amused, rational, watching the antics of the savages. A few pages later, stumbling into earnestness, he takes the tone...
...retroactive to January 1 for corporations and to April 1 for individuals, should garner $10 billion in a calendar year to offset a deficit that could run as high as $25 billion - even after the cutback in expenditures - and bolster sagging international confidence in the dollar. During the second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports...
...very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world," she wrote to Poet John Greenleaf Whittier. "I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long." By the calendar, Helen Keller was nine when she corresponded with Whittier. By Helen's own insistent reckoning, she was not quite three. She considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf...
...calendar is divided into four element periods - Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each pe riod is subdivided into three signs for a total of twelve...
...Greeks observed their Orthodox Easter, which the Julian calendar places a week later than in the West this year, they also marked the end of their first year under military rule. To celebrate the occasion, the junta planned military parades, ordered flags flown from every building and issued new gold and silver coins bearing its symbol: the shadow of a soldier against the background of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The regime of Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos hinted that it would make some surprise announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners...