Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Our.policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis ... Any assistance that this government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative...
These conditions exist, more or less, in the sun and other stars, where the tremendous gravitational forces of the giant bodies, combined with their huge amounts of hydrogen, produce self-sustaining fusion reactions. But producing controlled fusion on earth is a far more difficult task-and to do it practically and economically may well be the most complicated technological venture ever attempted. Says Physicist Gerald Yonas of New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories, a federally supported atomic research facility: "It's the most exciting area today in science. Fusion power is a mountain we have to climb...
...watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles the cumulative impact of these Sixties trademarks. They exist now only in our memories, yet, at that time, all had a particular social purpose; none were merely inventions of an aberrant Madison Avenue mind. In his novel Home Free, Dan Wakefield reduces the symbols of the flower child era to cliches and stereotypes, and in so doing, he joins...
...persistent youth unemployment at their most serious are beginning to show up in Italy. There a class of "intellectual unemployed" is growing -a group of university-trained youths determined not to work until positions they deem worthy for themselves open up. It is a new phenomenon. It did not exist, says Catania University Sociologist Francesco Alberoni, "when people did not have such expectations and worried about earning enough to eat with whatever job they could...
...young Palestinian poet, journalist and publisher describes his own experiences, and those of his family and friends, within the state of Israel. El-Asmar's reflections are especially valuable because, as a member of what would be considered the Israeli Arab elite if such an entity were allowed to exist, he has more contact--at least more positive contact--with Israeli Jews than most other Arabs in Israel. But el-Asmar's outspokenness on the condition of the Arabs in Israel has landed him months in jail without a trial, has resulted in his being accused of al-Fatah membership...