Word: coexister
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Before it explodes a bomb is a single entity in which opposites coexist in given conditions. The explosion takes place only when a new condition, ignition, is present. An analogous situation arises in all those natural phenomena which finally assume the form of open conflict to resolve old contradictions and produce new things...
Most Americans have learned to coexist with the inefficiencies and jargon of bureaucracy, accepting them with sullen resignation. Not so James Boren, president of NATAPROBU (for National Association of Professional Bureaucrats), a mischievous group organized to reform bureaucracy by lampooning it. Last week, at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., designed to demonstrate the bureaucratic characteristic of "dynamic inactivism," Boren belatedly named Sandra Summers, a Pentagon secretary, as "Miss Bureaucrat...
...revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project. Still, it can be argued that no novelist of the 19th century had more to tell about the destructive and self-destructive impulses that coexist with love...
...idea is that some Washington technocrats decide to test Einstein's theory that the past and the future coexist with the present. They persuade a spongelike commercial artist to live in the doughty old Dakota apartment building overlooking Central Park and, surrounded by artifacts of the time, hypnotize himself back eighty years. Nothing is simpler. The past is apparently right behind the eyeball. In no time the fellow is shuttling between centuries, meddling with history and falling in love with a girl who, he reminds himself, died some decades...
Scandalous Act. The commission is sure that capitalism can coexist with conservation. To crusaders like Mike McCloskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, that idea is elusive and unrealistic. As he sees it, more logging, grazing and mining on public lands can only benefit the few at the expense of the many. Says former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall: "The report is a long labor that leaves you right back where you started from." Executive Director Thomas L. Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation is even blunter. "In 1930," he says, "such recommendations would have been unacceptable. In 1970, they...