Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bamboo screens so that they could not see each other; they got a third daily meal of bread and water, and a third blanket. They began to pass their days in boredom rather than fear. Milligan began to raise a family of spiders in his cell, and watched geckos "mate with each other and grow...
...System/370 Model 165 computer has been put to work making matches. For 8,000 yen (about $30) a Mitsubishi worker can get the names of as many as ten employees of the opposite sex best matched to his or her own talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend a lot of time and money in search of their future husband or wife," says Hiroyuki Ito, a former Mitsubishi insurance executive who heads the mating effort...
Downing and Evans did not miss too often last night. Evans, a 6'3" forward, hit on 14 of 20 shots and had 32 points. His running mate in the front court, Downing, converted on 11 of his 15 shots for 24 points...
...Your comment on my remarks in "Swinging Future" omits the reason that led me to predict an increase in this kind of behavior. Mate exchange is a traditional human expedient to provide surrogate kin. Kin today are in short supply, and in a zero-population-growth society they will be fewer still. Today's swingers may not realize the origins of their behavior, but its significance goes beyond sexual restlessness...
...against the clamors of individuals or of social movements. To give this mission over completely to individual choice oversteps the order of nature." Others disagree. According to Reform Rabbi Israel Margolies, a fetus "is literally part of its mother's body, and belongs only to her and her mate...