Word: halfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when recurrent famines killed millions. Now there is so little food in so many parts of the world, year after year, that fully 25% of the globe's population is hungry or undernourished, and one person in eight suffers from debilitating malnutrition. Children under five make up over half of the world's malnourished population...
Still, oil has convinced the Islamic world-or half-convinced it-of its worth and power. The presence of oil in the complicated psychology of anti-Westernism makes the volatility of the Islamic world especially perilous. It is an interesting point of Muslim psychology that the Arabs who grow unimaginably rich off Western payments for oil (and squander their petrodollars on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Rolls-Royces and golden bathroom fixtures) have still in them enough desert asceticism to be contemptuous of the West's energy addictions. So here the old relation is reversed: the West...
Five years have passed since Portugal threw off half a century of dictatorship, but its road to a stable democracy remains bumpy. After eleven short-lived governments, assorted coups and countercoups, and much maneuvering between various military factions, the country is politically and economically weary. Following the fall of Socialist Premier Mario Scares' minority regime in mid-1978, the squabbling factions in the National Assembly were unable to agree on a new government. So last summer Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes, called an election in hope that a "coherent" left-of-center government would...
...second part of The Motion Picture describes the Enterprise crew's interception and final solution to the problem. The first half seems aimlessly tacked on. The writer and producer thought it necessary to explain the ten year gap between the last episode of the Star Trek television series and The Motion Picture. The resulting footage is not only unwieldy and expensive (a five-minute sequence involving the Starfleet's San Francisco headquarters must have cost at least $2 million) but also damages the rest of the show--the half-hour wasted on James T. Kirk's procession to the Enterprise...
Holpuch and Smith combined for 39 points. Wendy Carle, the other senior co-captain, displayed the best single defensive effort of the year by stifling the Chiefs' star, Randi Zola, in the second half. Best of all, a guard combination, Boutillier and Hall, played with confidence and flair, tearing the Springfield press to shreds...