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...demand for reading matter. James profited from this development, but he also, with characteristic hedging, deplored it: "The great newspaper movement of the present moment has, we suppose, its proper and logical cause, and is destined to have its proper and logical effect; but its virtues need to be manifold, assuredly, to palliate the baseness and flimsiness of much of the writing to which daily and weekly journals serve as sponsors...
...Horse, who lived in an unpainted shack atop a wintery knoll near the town of Mission. Born around the turn-of-the-century, they had spent most of their lives on the reservation, taking strong roles in tribal affairs and sharing with other members of the tribe in the manifold miseries as well as the sporadic improvements that came their way: the new schools, the modernized health facilities and the paved roads that were occasionally vouchsafed to the Sioux of Rosebud...
...response to Kohl's references to eventual German reunification, Andropov warned that if the NATO missiles were deployed, the people of East and West Germany would have to "look at each other through a thick palisade of missiles." He said the military threat to West Germany would "grow manifold," implying that the Soviets would react to the Pershing II and cruise deployment by installing nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe. Said Andropov: "The Soviet Union finds it hard to understand what the Federal Republic hopes to gain from the deployment of American missiles, our measures in response and the saturation...
Harvard Square--for all its acknowledged imperfections, which are manifold--is one of those rare congested urban areas which somehow seem to work at a human scale. Though not wholly rational, the underlying system--not clearly understood by anybody involved--should not be dealt with capriciously.--The 1976 Comprehensive Policy Plan for Harvard Square, compiled by the Harvard Square Task Force...
...Rights struggle. However, as their numbers and economic circumstances have improved in the U.S. they have moved in take advantage of the doors opened by the Civil Rights movement. While there have always been many qualified Asian-Americans in the academic pool, only recently have they increased their numbers manifold in selective colleges throughout the nation. These students tend to be highly motivated and often score in the highest percentiles on standardized college entrance exams. Many applying to Ivy League schools, for example, have both superb grade point averages and scores in the 99th percentile in the math, chemistry, physics...