Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When any kind of strontium gets into soil, it is taken up by plants as if it were calcium. Since plants do not like it as much as calcium, those grown in calcium-deficient soil generally contain more strontium 90 than plants that get plenty of calcium. It is not established, however, that all plants behave in this...
Thus, emerging out of politics, came progress that was more secure because of politics. "There is no doubt that these are not perfect documents," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. during the U.N. maneuverings, "but they are the product of compromise. They contain the words which can lead away from hostilities and toward an era of peace...
...this ideal were reached more often, there would be fewer complaints about the system. For in theory, the system is absolutely necessary today: it provides the only way in which to get a basic grounding in what is now known, and who now knows it, and what books now contain it, as a prelude to our own ventures into the uncertain. As such, it and its corollary, the grade system, are essential...
...this ideal were reached more often, there would be fewer complaints about the system. For in theory, the system is absolutely necessary today: it provides the only way in which to get a basic grounding in what is now known, and who now knows it, and what books now contain it, as a prelude to our own ventures into the uncertain. As such, it and its corollary, the grade system, are essential...
...Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company, Saud has become pivotal just by holding fast to reality. That reality confronts him every time he drives past the flaming gas flares outside Dhahran, where the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. wells tap fields that are estimated to contain three times as much oil as the whole U.S. Profits from these fields bring Saud a yearly income of $300 million, finance his government, build his palaces and swimming pools, buy him Cadillacs and Convairs. But Saud knows that without U.S. skills and capital, there are not enough technicians...