Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impartial at heart ("You love some things and you loathe others"), but he does his best to bring to his job the objectivity of a good historian. "The public," says he, "never sees that, with the kind of person you have to deal with on a high level, you can take it for granted that in his eyes he has a good case. There must be some elements in his case you can recognize as right...
...most part, "there is considerable doubt whether manipulation of an adequate diet can enhance performance . . . The best diet for an athlete is one that he enjoys and one that, at the same time, provides a variety of nutritious foods in amounts adequate to maintain his weight at an optimal level...
Pool Agreement. For the short run, France and the rest of Europe looked to the U.S. to supply their needs. In Paris last week, 17 nations formed an oil-pool agreement to handle oil imports by a "collective, cooperative effort" on a governmental level. Estimated cost at current prices: $4,000,000 per day to buy about 1,000,000 bbls. of Western oil daily and ship it to Europe. It will soon cost even more; oil prices are already starting to edge up, and tanker rates, which increased 38% in the last two months, are nearly 150% higher than...
...long before it was first sighted by Europeans in 1823, the lake began receding before the southward encroachment of the Sahara Desert. Scientists suspect that it was also draining away through an underground outlet. As Chad was transformed into a wilderness of swamplands and papyrus jungles, its water level dropped to a point where it no longer flowed out through the Bahr el Ghazal. Rice farmers along the river banks and the lake's once-fertile shores packed up and moved southward. With the maximum depth of the lake down to 22 feet, the French set up the Commission...
...centuries-old trend was unaccountably reversed. The lake began to rise rapidly, spilling over into the mud flats and inundating the clay-and-sand islands that dotted its shallows. The rising water level created its own hazards. Grazing lands were flooded, and immense expanses of papyrus set adrift. In the course of one howling storm, 16 Kotoko fishermen in a four-boat flotilla were driven into a field of floating papyrus and held captive by the sinewy stems. The crew of one boat managed to cut their way out of the papyrus jungle when they drifted into shallow water...