Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophy of a country where no one ever really dies. We ignore it. We're going to solve everything, do everything, live forever. It's not true. It's simply not true. But we have lost touch with the element of life that conditions life, that creates life. We exist in a series of self-created cliches...
...will probably decide that they can only hand down a very narrow ruling. The question of just how far admissions committees can go in attempting to make affirmative action truly work will go unresolved. But the Supreme Court must uphold the right of the U.C. Davis special program to exist, for it appears clear that both the intent and the effect of the program has been to act according to the spirit and principles of affirmative action, rather than to mechanically impose rigid quotas. Finally, the justices should sieze the opportunity to re-educate the public with the premises, instrumentalities...
...Lowrey did before the California trial court, that "there would be few, if any Black students and few Mexican-Americans, Indians or Orientals from disadvantaged backgrounds in the Davis Medical School, or any other medical school, if the special admissions program and similar programs at other schools did not exist...
...then Carter went a significant step further. If the Palestine Liberation Organization endorsed United Nations resolutions that implicitly accept Israel's right to exist, he promised, "then we will begin to meet with them and to search for some accommodation and some reasonable approach to the Palestinian question...
Besides that, oceans of unpumped oil are known to exist in the U.S. Only about a third of the oil in a well is ever brought to the surface by present methods-primarily, letting it gush out under its own pressure. The remaining two-thirds is usually written off as "unrecoverable." Sophisticated secondary and tertiary recovery methods exist to get that oil out: injecting high-pressure steam or liquid chemical solvents to dissolve the crude from tiny fissures in the rock. Some drilling experts calculate that the recovery rate could be increased to 60%, which would almost double U.S. recoverable...