Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) disapproved the diesel electric generating portion of the plant on January 31 because of the allegedly dangerous level of nitrogen dioxide that the diesels would produce. Harvard has appealed the DEQE ruling, but the dates for the appeal have not yet been...
Levesque's claim however, is that cultural maturation and protection can be legislated on a macro-political level, and need not be accompanied by substantive reforms in social and economic organization. The only impediment to the cultural expression of the Quebecois that concerns Levesque is the province's participation in a larger English-dominated federal structure...
Immediately upon beginning the practice I noticed improvements on the subjective level. Life was generally more fun. There was less of the strain and exhaustion I had often felt previously, and more energy, clarity and creativity. On a more objective level, my productivity at work took a jump, largely, it seemed, because of an improved ability to see the broad context as well as to concentrate on the details, both necessary to produce the maximum result. This being my experience, I naturally wanted to understand more about how such a simple procedure practiced two brief periods daily could have such...
...able to verbalize or even think about the laws in order to make effective use of them. They become structured in one's awareness so that one can automatically take full advantage of them at any time. Just like riding a bicycle, once an ability is gained on this level and stabilized through practice it is not lost...
...supreme clichés of tourism and, short of an archaeological discovery of Atlantis, which seems improbable, it is likely to remain so. King Tut's tomb had more gold and better works of art, but it gives little impression of how Egyptians below Tutankhamun's level lived. Pompeii has everything, even some mild and (by modern standards) charmingly humane pornography. Thus it has been big cultural box office ever since 1834, when Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii created the catastrophe novel as a form of entertainment. ("Alas! Alas!" murmured Ione...