Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you alread "know" that our western rational consciousness is in some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned mystical and visionary experiences to the hallucinations/delusions bin. Unfortunately you tend to produce a narrow work when you assume the conclusions before beginning the research...
...margin as more likely to "keep the economy prosperous." Voters did not express overwhelming confidence in either party to handle the tax issue, but those who did have a preference tended to cite their own party as being best on taxes. The Democratic edge stems from its larger share of the registered voters...
...snail darter has thus become the symbol of a much larger question: At what price shall the environment be protected? Opponents of refunding want to make the Endangered Species Act less rigid, especially when a species is being protected at the expense of what they consider the larger public good. Accordingly, some members of Congress have submitted legislation that would allow endangered flora and fauna to be wiped out if saving them proved too costly. Says an aide to Robin Beard, a Tennessee Republican leading the House antifunding forces: "The problem now is that the law allows no exceptions...
...hinges in the waves forces the pistons to pump water, turning turbines that produce electricity. A small prototype string of rafts in the English Channel now produces a mere 1 kw., but its designer, Sir Christopher Cockerell, who also invented the Hovercraft, says that a cluster of 300 larger rafts could generate as much energy as a big conventional power station...
...Lynds, who did not miss much, found roots of the "generation gap" of the 1960s. Backyards were getting smaller and community playgrounds larger, one sign that even young children were spending more time away from home. Sudden change had brought an "early sophistication" to the young and a lessening of parental authority. Industrialization allowed a boy to earn a man's wage and end dependence on his parents at a younger age. Still, says Bahr, there is no evidence that the generation gap is wider today than in 1924: parents and their offspring quarrel about the same amount...