Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best tradition of the early muckrakers, both Paul Brodeur and Rachel Scott movingly demonstrate their concern. Scott, 27, studies what she calls "industrial slaughter in America." Brodeur, 43, analyzes in extraordinary detail the "delayed carnage" of disease-inducing chemicals and fiber-laden air that exist in all too many of today's factories. The pair worked separately (Scott full time for three years, Brodeur intermittently for six) but often on the same scandalous health conditions. The tone of their writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal...
...first name and patronymic "Vadim Vadimych" do not exist in Russian, but they could, the memoirist feels uneasily, be blurred rendering of "Vladimir Vladimirovich." As to his own surname, poor Vadim cannot remember it, though he feels fairly sure it begins with "N" -Naborcroft, he wonders? Nablize? (The experienced reader, meanwhile, notices that Vadim's pseudonym "V. Irisin" sounds a lot like "Sirin," the pen name of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, an émigré Russian of illustrious but not aristocratic background who wrote in Berlin, not Paris, after the revolution. This Sirin, Nabokov has been heard to assert...
President Ford's clemency plan defies the recommendation of every religious body in America and rejects the principal point of 37 previous grants of presidential amnesty. By degrading those opposed to war, it invites further wars because, as President Kennedy wrote, "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today...
Modern researchers have determined that there are acupuncture points which range in size from a pinpoint to the size of a silver dollar that do in fact exist. But they claim there are at least a thousand of them. The whole idea of meridians, however, along the Eastern philosophy of Yin and Yang, is alien to conventional Western thought...
Spiralling costs, plummeting stocks, and the other bad animals that any Ec 10 student knows shouldn't exist, in theory, are affecting the entire nation -- rich and poor; charitable institutions and profit-maximizing corporations...