Word: containers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing the group at week's end around the blacktopped Cabinet table in the White House, the President emphasized that he wanted advice on "short-term measures that can prevent riots, better measures to contain riots once they begin, and long-term measures that will make them only a sordid page in our history." Above all, he continued, "this matter is far, far too important for politics. It goes to the heart of our society in a time of swift change and great stress...
Charles de Gaulle may be stubborn, outrageous and unrealistic in his ambi tions for France, but his policies usual ly contain a degree of rationality. His opposition to British entry into Europe, however motivated it may be by anti-Anglo-Saxon prejudice, makes a certain amount of sense because British entry would surely bring problems and perhaps dangers to the Common Market. His recent diplomatic support of the Arabs against Israel, however in consistent with past French policy, makes a Machiavellian kind of sense because De Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted...
...really doubt that the city slickers of the universe are all that interested in us." Earth is merely a minor planet orbiting around one of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which in turn is only an average member of a universe that may itself contain 100 billion galaxies. In his book, Intelligent Life in the Universe, written with Russian Astrophysicist I. S. Shklovsky, Sagan estimates that in the Milky Way alone there may be as many as a million planets inhabited by advanced civilizations. Yet distances between stars are so vast-the Milky...
...Promised Land around 1000 B.C., David decided to capture the citadel from the Jebusites, a tribal ally of the Philistines. He did so after a prolonged siege, and made it his capital. There he brought the ark of the covenant, a gold-lined chest that Moses had built to contain the tablets of the law. David's son Solomon, who reigned from circa 970 to 930 B.C., built a magnificent Temple to contain the ark and serve as God's earthly home...
...startling applications, radioactive dating is inadequate for objects that are very small or contain only tiny traces of radioactive matter. Hence the significance of two recent dating techniques developed largely by Physicist Robert M. Walker of Washington University in St. Louis...