Word: consistence
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last four of these settlements were placed in army "camps" that had been created only a few weeks earlier-and obviously for the sole purpose of providing an excuse for a civilian settlement. At Karnei Shomron, a West Bank settlement into which civilians moved last week, the military facilities consist of a single guard hut and two shacks for billeting ten to 20 reservists...
...increase will consist of a $400 rise in tuition and a $100 increase in room and board costs, representing a rise of seven per cent over last year, George S. Putnam, treasurer of the Corporation, said yesterday...
Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal announced that the Administration will unveil a new anti-inflation plan this week. It will apparently consist of a set of "principles" that the Administration will urge labor and business to follow in boosting wages and prices, with no numbers indicating how much is too much. Says one top Government economist: "I don't know how the hell it is going to work...
Choir practice, according to Policeman turned Novelist Joseph Wambaugh, is a harness-bull euphemism for what cops do together off duty to relieve the tensions of their enervating jobs. It appears to consist mainly of boozing, wenching and venting gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...
...prospects brighten for making big money out of muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...