Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growers, who contend that they cannot make a profit at that price. So last week the House wound up subcommittee public hearings on a bill that would use import quotas and fees to set a floor price for sugar of 17¢ per Ib. The same bill has been put forward in the Senate by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, and it has 34 cosponsors...
Some of the rebels retreated along the east-west Benguela railroad toward the town of Chicapa, where the F.N.L.C. fighters and their families make up a community of 35,000 people. Others traveled dirt roads in northern Zambia to a forward camp at Kameni, just across the border in Angola, where recent travelers in the area reported seeing the lights of hundreds of campfires...
...massive snowfalls. From there, it flows inexorably down toward Columbia Bay, where it terminates on a shoal across the fjord in shallow water. Like all glaciers that end at the sea, Columbia continually "calves" or drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic retreat" that may last for decades...
...Geological Survey team. Upstream from its face, the glacier has thinned by more than 30 ft. in one year, and since 1974, there have been periods of accelerated calving every summer. Says U.S.G.S. Glaciology Project Chief Mark Meier: "This suggests that there is not enough ice coming forward to keep up with the iceberg calving...
...could not channel the direction of all creative artistic endeavor completely or all at once. Breton was to discover this as early as 1929, when increasing arguments among early Surrealists about the value of automatism began to splinter the group; but in the early 1920s, Breton's writings put forward a new way of looking at life as a whole. Surrealism began as a literary movement, but its tenets led beyond culture--even though, today, it is chiefly manifested in art--towards what the Chilean artist Sebastion Antonio Matta Echaurren maintained to be "the total emancipation of man." For Breton...