Word: extents
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...they are, to the extent that evaluation and judgment are among our most important functions. In that sense, many of our stories "review" the dramas the world presents and the performances of men in the news. This week's cover story attempts far more than a report on the capabilities and limitations of the U.S. military. It contains an analysis of public and political attitudes toward the armed forces, an assessment of military leadership and some suggestions for reform...
...Lagos against observable fact in Biafra. He carefully outlined his own clear conclusions in a long four-part series for the London Times. Churchill had started with the impression that starvation was exaggerated, bombing of civilians a myth and a federal victory imminent. He wound up appalled at the extent of the Ibo people's suffering and amazed at their ability to hold off the better-armed federal troops. Moreover, he blasted Britain for supplying those arms...
Golden Rectangle. There is more than enough Fibonacci lore to fill each issue. "We have a backlog of articles," says Brother Alfred proudly, "and we've been accepted by the mathematical fraternity." Mathematician Verner Hoggatt Jr., editor of the Quarterly, has gone to the extent of establishing the Fibonacci Bibliographical and Research Center at San Jose State College. He tours schools to lecture on Fibonacci numbers, vigorously advocates their use in teaching and has compiled a remarkable dossier on Fibonaccia...
...Justices* threw out the murder conviction of a man named Reyes Arias Orozco, who had been questioned not at the station house but in his own bedroom. Writing for the majority, Justice Hugo Black denied that he was broadening the restrictions imposed by Miranda "to the slightest extent." Instead, Black cited a sentence from the earlier decision requiring that a person be warned of all his rights whenever he is "in custody at the station or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action...
Until now, the courts have interpreted that law to forbid most "horizontal" mergers between competitors and, to a lesser extent, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. But the courts have said little about corporate takeovers of companies in entirely different fields. Mitchell's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, plans to invoke the Clayton Antitrust Act's Section Seven, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that substantially lessen competition. He may well cite the anti-competitive potential of reciprocal purchasing arrangements, under which LTV subsidiaries, which use large amounts of steel, might favor J. & L. rather than go to the marketplace...