Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH a total area of 3.7 million square miles, China is not only larger than the U.S. but embraces at least as wide a variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early...
L.D.F.'s Himmelstein argues that fighting to restore capital punishment, though a politically easy response, is not likely to succeed and so is not a realistic allocation of crime-fighting resources. "What we're hoping," he says, "is that people will realize that trying to find the loopholes...
Factors other than earnings can also affect the price of a stock and wildly distort P/E ratios. Aerovox Corp. earned a grand total of less than 30¢ per share in the last four quarters, but its stock still sells at about 13½ per share, giving it a P/E of 50...
IN CRITICIZING this part of the Congress Project report for its extravagant redundance, though, it's easy to forget that it isn't addressed to people who are innured to graft and jaded by executive usurpation. The data and conclusions of the report are not intended to contribute to the...
In The Bronx, a thousand or so people gathered to hear a talk by British Novelist-Scientist C.P. Snow. As they might have suspected, Lord Snow expounded on one of his pet subjects: genetics. "Men are equal in death," said Snow. "They are not born equal." It is nonsense, he...