Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example: A dies from the simultaneous effects of a shooting by B and a stabbing...
...belief that bombing raids will drive the N.L.F. to negotiation. If the Soviet Union were dropping bombs on our oil reserves around New York City, we would fight to the last man, however hopeless the battle, before making concessions to our enemy. It seems foolhardy not to assume equal determination in the North Vietnamese...
...most populous state in West Germany and, with its vast Rhine-Ruhr coal-and-steel complex, the industrial heartland of the nation. The state's 17 million inhabitants represent fully a third of the West German electorate, and exercise a political power that in U.S. terms would equal California's and New York's combined. Heavily Catholic, the region has traditionally given wide majorities to Erhard's Christian Democratic Union. Hence the surprise last week when, in the state's first election since 1962, Willy Brandt's Social Democrats grabbed 49.5% of the popular...
...Common Market and Viet Nam, the best that the Yorkshireman and the Auvergnat could do was agree to disagree. However, the two leaders did decide to go ahead with the historic, $560 million channel tunnel to link Dover and Calais, and Wilson's wine cellar proved admirably equal to the premier occasion: one luncheon carte included a 1934 Château Margaux and an 1878 Grand Fin Bois...
...Institute has achieved almost equal renown in physics, thanks in part to the presence of such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography...