Word: contrivedness
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Although some of his bemused colleagues jovially accused him of being a "numbers nut," Dutka is convinced that his 200 pages of tightly spaced computer printout, each containing 5,000 digits, has some practical value. The square root of 2 is what mathematicians call an irrational number, one that runs...
A major factor in breeding, zoos have discovered, is to provide the animal with surroundings as close to his own native habitat as possible. In the contrived gloom of The Bronx Zoo's "World of Darkness," badgers ramble into burrows and kit foxes scurry over "desert." In the new...
IV. External Resources. If Vietnam is to embark on a course of development, especially while it remains mobilized to any appreciable degree, foreign aid must continue at least for a decade or more. There are three cogent reasons why this is true. First, however well contrived its fiscal and monetary...
"Allende has somehow computed Kennecott's alleged excess profits over the past 15 years to be more than our total earnings from Chile in that period," complained Kennecott President Frank Milliken, whose firm has been a particularly good corporate citizen in Chile. Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende'...
Rusty Calley has evoked unpleasant responses from almost all elements of American society: professional members of the silent majority have organized to make him a hero, professional liberals have propagandized to turn him into a leper, the military has contrived to blame him for conceiving, organizing, and carrying out the...