Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head," he explains. "It was just a matter of getting it down." Yet the quality of Asimov's writing seems seldom to suffer from his pounding haste. His New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965) and his three-volume Understanding Physics (1966) were praised by lay critics for both lucidity and style...
Dark Spots. Behind the words of both Ackley and Martin lay the fact that the U.S. economy is pulling out of the winter downturn which is being called, in current vogue, the "mini-recession." Though the economy, as Martin noted, "is beginning to show signs of moving ahead again," many dark spots remain. Despite massive stimulation to business through an easing of credit and a sharp rise in federal spending, industrial production has slipped four months out of the past five on the Federal Reserve Board index; in May, it fell 2% below its December peak. The nation...
Behind the conference, attended by consulting engineers and World Bank and United Nations representatives, lay Caterpillar's high-minded-and shrewd -concern with the plight of developing nations, which must start clearing their underdeveloped land if they are to meet the food needs of their burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range...
...There lay that store I counted best...
...should perhaps remember, in this connection, that the assumptions which lay back of our Vietnam policy, including the concept of a unitary and all-embracing Communist imperialism, were never based on any very close knowledge of the subject. They were a formula, in some measure a theology, adopted by lawyers, businessmen, government officials and military men in the years of the Marshall Plan and NATO. Few of the authors had any first hand knowledge of Communism. Few had much experience of the political left. None had much experience of Asia. All were reacting to the current reality of Josef Stalin...