Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress will ultimately triumph, and mankind will be able to step into the 21st century in conditions of peace, stable as never before." To make this big step, added Carter, echoing St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, "our planet must finally obey the biblical injunction to 'follow after the things which make for peace...
...battle with the smaller, zippier imports, such as the Honda Civic and Volkswagen Rabbit, whose sales are booming. GM's current entry in this field, the trim little Chevette (base price: $3,225, v. $3,499 for a Rabbit), was introduced in 1975, but Chrysler now plans to follow with the country's first front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon. Ford, too, will offer a front-wheel-drive subcompact, the Fiesta, though the car will be built by Ford subsidiaries in Europe and shipped to the U.S. American Motors' entry in the subcompact...
...still in those curves around your fanny!" And so, to the tune of such muscle-toning music as Strangers in the Night, passengers contract and tighten their muscles-starting with their toes and working up to their arms. Leg thrusts (under the seat in front) and shoulder rolls follow...
According to sociobiologists, evolution produces organisms that automatically follow this mathematical logic, as if they were computers, totting up the genetic costs or benefits of helping out relatives who bear many of the same genes. If aiding the relatives increases the chances that familial genes will prosper and propagate, the organism will act altruistically?even to the extent of giving up its life, as a parent may, for example, by rushing into a burning house to save a child. Yet in humans, this genetic push is less binding; sociobiologists believe that human social behavior is largely controlled by facultative genes?...
Item 2: The young man who was disappointed at the boutique lodged his complaint with the San Francisco human rights commission. Because the complainant failed to follow through, the perplexed commission did not decide officially whether a ladies' clothing store has the right to refuse a man permission to try on its merchandise on the premises. Questions: Can anyone in the real world take such an issue seriously? Should the drive against sexist discrimination lead to the negation of all social differentiations between the sexes? No was the answer hinted at in Portland, Ore., by the civil rights division...