Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was not what had been asked of him. He was acting against the deadline of a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee, which is weighing his impeachment, for the actual tapes of 42 White House conversations. But he would or could not deliver the tapes, for reasons he did...
Given the enormous hazards for Nixon in the transcripts, it seemed baffling that he released them at all. He may have felt that he had Little choice. Having resolved not to turn over the tapes to the Judiciary Committee, he had to make some extraordinary gesture to avoid almost certain...
Though the aid has been lifesaving, it has not been as effectively used as it could be. Inefficiency and corruption of local bureaucrats have slowed the distribution of the emergency supplies. In Mali and Niger, officials have diverted some of the donated grain to commercial channels for sale at enormous...
One Meager Meal. India, which had been one of the major success stories of the Green Revolution, is now seeking commodity aid from the U.S. because inadequate rains coupled with fertilizer shortages reduced recent harvests. With perhaps half of its 600 million people living at or below the subsistence level...
The invention of the ball bearing, Illich says, gave Western man a choice between more freedom in equity or more speed. When men selected more speed, they were not aware of the hidden costs their progeny would discover in high-energy transportation: inhuman times scarcity, massive space consumption, invidious class...