Word: intactness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What if Leakey, or anyone else, should discover an intact Australopithecus africanus with only 23 ribs...
...program's prospects of emerging intact from Congress have dimmed, defending its provisions has become Priority No. 1 throughout the Administration. Getting a comprehensive energy plan in place becomes more urgent with each passing month. Oil imports, which now supply about 49% of U.S. needs, are running nearly 10% ahead of last year's level; the oil import bill for all of 1977 will total an alarming $45 billion. The overriding goal of Carter's plan is to cut these huge figures down to size: by 1985 to reduce the growth of energy consumption to 2% annually...
...children,' he said softly. Those who had escaped by hiding in the caves where livestock are generally kept hunted for other survivors; when they heard a cry, they dug. A lady in black walked through the rubble carrying a mirror almost as tall as she and somehow still intact. Pausing to rest, she set it carefully on the ground for a moment. 'Now I've lost my husband,' she said. 'And my question is Why kill us? We don't fight...
Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni agrees that the weakening of traditional standards could have dangers. Says he: "No political society has ever survived without its nuclear family intact. We can't go on becoming more and more liberal. We can't go on becoming ever more tolerant and pulling the nuclear family apart...
...alienation because the characters in the country songs still have one place to go, a place where the community is still close-knit--the rural South. In rural states like Mississippi where there are few large cities and many small, fairly isolated towns, the sense of community is still intact. Most people work on small farms or in some small commercial enterprise. Work is organized at a personal level; everybody knows everybody else. There is a common set of social mores and values rooted in Biblical faith. The community offers its members a clear distinction between right and wrong...