Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of nations modernizing their armed forces appears endless. According to a Brookings Institution study, even the Royal Brunei Navy has spent several million dollars upgrading its signal network. The international trade in nonnuclear arms now tops $18 billion annually?up from a mere $300 million in 1952, and a jump of more than 550% since 1964.* Moreover, this represents only a fraction of total military expenditures: in 1973 the nations of the world spent $240 billion to train, equip and maintain their armed forces. Until a few years ago, nations usually
...logic" in the recommendations forgeries to the pressures of the pre-med syndrome; some of his friends chalked it up to a success-oriented family background; some of his teachers and fellow students in the Bio Labs, and even Rosenfeld himself, blamed the cumulative effect of spending endless hours in the laboratory and classroom...
This self-conscious uniqueness is evident everywhere at Steve's: in the hand-lettered menu; in the rows of framed newspaper clippings about the place that line the wall where endless hordes of people wait for sundaes and mix-ins; in the way Steve leans on the ends of the counter, talking to customers or putting message-bearing candy hearts on top of their ice cream (if it happens to be Valentine...
...bristling with political activity since the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship, as if the people were making up for the decades when any kind of political activity was banned. The once sparkling white walls of Lisbon are disfigured by thousands of peeling political posters; radio and television devote seemingly endless hours to political debates, and most newspapers are little more than partisan broadsheets. There is a rally almost every day by at least one of the country's more than 50 parties...
...remembrance with a future-oriented Marxism consider Grandpa Joad's line in The Grapes of Wrath "I' m stickin' with my farm until Idie"), and Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia." In which he applauds "Tom Jefferson's vision" which "could not let him rest"--that vision being the endless expansion of American farmland westward...