Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million, and His Honor donated $100 of his own money. The Carter Administration put up $11.3 million in relief, and Governor Hugh Carey promised $500.000 in state aid. This will hardly dent the storekeepers' losses, which city officials estimated at $155 million (a sharp drop from their ballpark guess of $1 billion a week earlier). Merchants and property owners are also eligible for low-interest (6⅝%) Small Business Administration loans, but City Councilman Ramon Velez exclaimed: "The forms are so difficult it is unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans, and SBA officials anticipated a total...
...some of the genetically determined traits with success." Such beliefs worry many readers, so Wilson often devotes himself to reassuring audiences that sociobiology is not threatening. He says, for example, that only about 10% to 15% of human social behavior is genetically based. (After this less-than-scientific guess, Sahlins replied with some dry academic mockery that human behavior cannot be reduced to 10% biology, 5% physics, 3% chemistry, .7% geology, 81% symbolic logic and .3% the action of heavenly bodies...
...thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side, she concocts fantastic business deals that bring riches to her friends and show-biz backers-and yes, even to that little secretary who entrusted her life savings...
...Well, I guess I always wanted to be a doctor. And now, I see medicine as something that requires a combination of technical knowledge and humanity...
...Beadle confirms some cat lore and usefully corrects certain misconceptions. Every cat owner knows cats can speak volumes-especially at night on back fences. Few would guess that in human terms this vocalization works out to nine consonants, five vowel sounds, two diphthongs and an umlaut (as in the German...