Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stadium--sometimes for fifty repetitions--during winter conditioning. The problem was not altogether physical because many people had done it before, and I was capable of enduring. There were mental barriers to be overcome--the doubts that would run through my head as I endured the painful exercise were manifold. Why was I doing it in the first place? This was a question that continually returned as the rigors of rowing and conditioning were experienced. The five races during the season could not justify the time and turmoil that was involved. There must have been something more. The satisfaction upon...
...benefits expected from vampire control are manifold: a marked decrease in outbreaks of both human and animal rabies and other infections carried by the bats; an increase in the weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live...
...goal of the Festival has now become a manifold effort to improve the cultural climate of the Harvard and Cambridge communities, and to reinforce this by the free and fanciful use of the environment. The spirit pervading the Festival should be, in Weezy's words, "doing as well as seeing...
...interventionist policies--namely, as the Modigliani study confirms, the upper socio-economic strata. Members of these classes, who generally have an economic, ideological, or psychological stake in American expansion, know fully well that this expansion cannot be sustained without mass support or at least mass acquiescence. It serves their manifold interests to paint for the benefit of the public a picture of Communism which is as menacing as possible, in order to defend and justify all kinds of American overseas forays...
...Despite the manifold difficulties of our times and the current widespread prevalence of the practice, scapegoating will not do," he warned...