Word: foldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOYCOTT serves a two-fold purpose. First, if it catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...
...brain from outside the skull. For this procedure, Ausman and other neurosurgeons use part of the temporal artery, which ascends in front of the ear and then divides, one branch carrying blood to the forehead and the eye socket, the other to the scalp. First they cut and fold down a flap of scalp above the ear. In the process, they sever the artery and separate it from the scalp. (Other vessels supply blood to the region above the severed artery.) Next, they saw out a piece of skull, about the size of a half-dollar, to expose...
...nowhere else) that a Brigham Young University professor has found that over 40 per cent of stiffs kick within three months of their birthdays. Wouldn't you be apprehensive if after Sunday your chances of going to you final resting place (Fathers Six) were going to increase three-fold? If this column fails to appear some week in the near future, you will know I haven't just been blown off in the shop, as we say in the news business, which happened last week...
...suddenly one of the hotter teams in Division One, does not seem to have the capacity to fold. The Engineers have won four in a row, have three games left at home, and have adhered themselves to seventh place, all in a week's time...
...generation of increasing division of labor and greater economic productivity has transformed French society and the French alike. The focus of French life has shifted from the small village to the industrial metropolis; less than 10 per cent of the French are employed in agriculture. A five-fold increase in the number of working women signals an important shift in social mores. An extensive transportation network and greater radio and television penetration has forced provincial peasants to attempt to grapple with and understand the ideas and values of a technocratic society while their old traditions are repudiated by those ostensibly...