Word: healthier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority for Labor of 50 to 100 seats, the left-wingers could revolt at will on every niggling issue, not only embarrassing Wilson but also putting him in greater danger of a Tory upset than at present. Thus, in one sense at least, a slim lead for Labor is healthier than...
There are healthier ways to take a sabbatical from Stanford University. But Dwight Hall Owen Jr., an inquiring, venturesome sophomore from Providence, R.I., who for kicks mined gold in Honduras when he was 18, decided last spring that he had to reach his own decisions about the war, the world and Dwight Hall Owen Jr. "I wanted to see the world while I'm still young and impressionable," he explains, "before prejudices have a chance to harden. I wanted to be on my own completely, for once in my life, and-I don't know-I guess...
...moral," says one U.S. official in wry and epigrammatic justification of aid, and Congress, after the arguments are over, always seems to agree. This year's votes, which in both houses ran two-thirds in favor of aid, say in effect that Americans think the world a little healthier with U.S. help, and think the U.S. a little healthier...
...Beyond this, a gain in the economy can be a mixed blessing. Of the 40% of the world's population that normally goes hungry, about one-fourth are Indians. Even a slight increase in their standard of living means that they would eat better food and grow healthier-and that would send their birth rate...
Flowered spikes of lavender blossoms give the water hyacinth a distinctly delicate air. But no aquatic plant is healthier or hardier. Few multiply as fast; in the summer months in the tropics, the hyacinth doubles its number once every 30 days. The plant is so prolific that once it takes hold, floating carpets choke rivers, canals, lakes and bayous. It hinders boat traffic and uses up oxygen needed by fish. After years of trying to keep the hyacinth at bay, a group of weed-control experts and navigation engineers-the Hyacinth Control Society-met in Palm Beach to discuss their...