Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indochinese refugee situation must be recognized as Asia's effort to dump its excess population on Western nations. The people involved are not "political refugees," but simply masses of poor people bent on improving their...
Last year, the freshmen once again voted to break the boycott, only to change their minds after a consciousness-raising effort by upperclassmen. Some people consider the boycott question a paper tiger, since the CRR has not needed to meet for several years. However, recent student protests are making the issue important once again...
...fringes, cringing or remaining aloof. Just remember to be aware of the distance to the exit from any room you find yourself in, and make sure you can get there on a moment's notice. Don't even talk to obvious assholes, they're not worth the effort. Refuse to reveal the essential details beyond name and rank, that is, don't tell anyone where you're from, what your SAT scores were, or what you think you'll major in. Stay in your room a lot. One warning, though: if you really go for this technique, it will color...
...total of all the cutbacks would reach some 1 million bbl. daily. That is precisely the amount by which Saudi Arabia last month boosted its own production in an effort to stabilize prices. The reductions would give a renewed upward push to prices worldwide, notably on the all-important spot market. That is a loose telephone network of traders who buy and sell the small amounts of crude that are not locked up under long-term contracts...
After that bitter time in the Soviet, any effort to cure mankind's ailments was written off by Muggeridge as "liberalism," and thus beneath contempt. Education, he finds, "is a stupendous fraud perpetrated by the liberal mind on a bemused public, and calculated, not just not to reduce juvenile delinquency, but positively to increase it, being itself a source of this very thing." As for modern art: "A Picasso, after a lifetime's practice arrives at the style of the cave drawings in the Pyrenees." Progress, for Muggeridge, is arrogant optimism, a shaking of man's tiny...