Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's predatory hostesses may low relax. This year's arbiter of who's who in the capital's political and social life-complete with 5,000 names of the chosen-has arrived...
...Somalis, by contrast, lack the arms to wage a prolonged desert war. Despite some limited help from the Arabs, they may soon run low on fuel, spare parts and ammunition. Earlier this year, the U.S.-an ally of Ethiopia's during the late Emperor Haile Selassie's day-had thought of improving its ties with Somalia by sending some military aid. But after the Somali drive on the Ogaden began in July, Washington decided that it had better stay out of this murky conflict. The Somalis accuse the U.S. of breaking its word-although, in fact, no firm...
None of that is likely to solve the long-term difficulties of the steel industry. The trouble is the worldwide low level of capital investment. Sluggish global economic growth and new technologies-the building of smaller cars, for example-have reduced worldwide demand for steel and left mills in Europe, Japan and the U.S. with excess capacity. The Europeans and Japanese have been trying to get rid of the surplus steel by selling it in the U.S.-and also to each other; Europeans complain about the Japanese invading their home markets. U.S. steel companies have a special problem: many...
...countries gave rise to the theory of the demographic transition. It holds that societies tend to move through three distinct demographic stages: 1) high birth rates and high death rates, resulting in near stationary populations; 2) high birth rates but declining death rates, producing growing populations; and finally, 3) low birth rates and low death rates, re-establishing near stationary populations...
Overall, the Tigers controlled the ball for more than 42 minutes of the game, so a case could be made that Harvard did well just keeping the score that low. Indeed, the Crimson made one goal-line stand in the second quarter, stopped Princeton twice later on before watching Chris Howe miss two quite makeable field goals, killed a fourth drive thanks to a Tom Masterson interception, and otherwise put in a long, if not good, day's work...