Word: looming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dangerous gas will go is hard to predict. Some scientists fear that burning plastic products in dumps or incinerators releases VC into the air. Others even worry that VC might be emitted from auto seat covers in cars that have been parked all day in the sun. Beyond that loom potential dangers from scores of other contaminants in man's everyday products. As more is learned about them, more bans and controls are likely...
...modulation. Altman likes to use microphones so that conversations overlap, swirling in and around each other fast enough that you don't follow any of them but you're getting them all. What you're catching is the way the energy of a room works, the way little events loom and subside. At a poker table you perceive the unconscious underside of the whole group, the cumulative impression that the individuals playing the cards and making the cracks...
...rate of about 400,000 a year (primarily from Latin America and Asia), immigrants at present account for about 20% of the yearly population growth. If births and deaths are balanced, immigration would be responsible for all the growth, and eventually immigrants and their descendants would loom disproportionately large in the population...
...committee grew out of an organization called the Joint Budget Committee, a group of governing boards members set up in 1971 to review Radcliffe's finances every year. The budget committee evolved into the Joint Policy Committee almost two years ago, and when the issue of merger began to loom on the horizon last year the Joint Policy Committee's members decided that they were the people who should be conducting the 1974-75 merger re-evaluation...
There are few in sight. Indeed, many more troubles still loom for the increasingly isolated President. He as much as admitted at his press conference that his income tax deduction of $482,000 for the donation of his public papers was at least technically illegal?because the paper work was not completed before the law allowing such deductions expired?and he hinted that he would have to pay a large sum in back taxes. His own tax accountant, Arthur Blech, was quoted last week as saying that he objected to some of Nixon's 1970 and 1971 deductions...