Word: existed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern Icelander is a chip off the old Norse. He believes that his tiny nation of 172,000 people can exist in equal partnership with great powers-while supporting itself almost entirely on fish. Last week the Icelander proved his premise by winning a curious ocean war against the proudest maritime nation on earth: Great Britain...
...That's terrible," he says. "We should have 18,000. Industry and labor don't seem to realize the tremendous need that exists now, and will exist in the future, for skilled help." -One difficulty is that students lose interest in lower-paid training jobs when they see they can make more money in the short run as laborers...
...Newton God, Koyre noted was an omnipresent one. God did not create space in Newton's system, but rather space was an emanation from him. Space was necessarily eternal, for a time at which space did not exist would imply a time when God was nowhere. The early metaphysical speculations and study of Descartes provided a basis for Newton's later scientific work, Koyre said in conclusion...
...indeed a psychological task in accepting the intractability of the Russians and renouncing the hope that tomorrow Communists will suddenly become "nice guys". But it also faces a task in turning an equally permanent force, the new nations, to some course acceptable in liberal terms. If no criteria exist to distinguish revolutionary friend from revolutionary foe, we have exchanged the inability to recognize our enemies for the inability to recognize our comrades...
...representatives at Melun, where they had been virtually treated like prisoners. "Melun?" snapped De Gaulle. "There wasn't a Melun." Things would be different this time. "Nine-tenths of Algeria's Moslems are nationalists," said De Gaulle flatly. "They have created a nation that previously did not exist. Now they must build a state." Was De Gaulle ready to negotiate personally with the F.L.N. leaders? His reply: "I will talk to President Bourguiba about that...