Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As the program's prospects of emerging intact from Congress have dimmed, defending its provisions has become Priority No. 1 throughout the Administration. Getting a comprehensive energy plan in place becomes more urgent with each passing month. Oil imports, which now supply about 49% of U.S. needs, are running...
Frank Milliken, 63, Kennecott's president, deputized Senior Vice President Milton Stern to justify the purchase of a company for twice its book value. Stern's explanation: "We liked what we saw at Carborundum in terms of the people, products and continuing growth. We know that $66 is...
According to Gulf, prices in the U.S. were driven up in large part not by the cartel but by its legal opponent, Westinghouse. To increase sales of its nuclear reactors, Westinghouse offered purchasers longterm, low-cost supplies of uranium fuel, though it did not own the uranium; for a time...
Flesh and Blood begins like another version of Rocky. The tale of his protagonist, Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the...
Yet mankind ever seeks some unify ing principle or vision. In a much earlier Borges collection, it took the form of the "Aleph," a tiny spot of light in which everything that occurred in the world could be seen simultaneously. In the new book, there is "undr, " a single word...