Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flowing across state lines. As demand surged in the early 1970s, partly as a result of environmental legislation favoring clean-burning gas, the FPC held the price at an artificially low level. Even now, it is fixed at only 510 per thousand cu. ft., equivalent to a mere...
...instead of being put away for another year. Yet on the morning after the Fourth, perhaps we should ask ourselves just how free and enlightened we are, and whether the sons of those pioneers are as persevering as were their fathers. In short, just what are we celebrating-beyond mere survival, which in itself is no mean achievement...
...them work harder for their own advancement than for the good of their fellows?a fact that regularly embarrasses socialist regimes. The Soviet Union permits collective farmers to cultivate small private plots in their spare time and sell the produce for their own profit. Those plots account for a mere 4% of the land under cultivation in the U.S.S.R.?yet, by value, they produce a fourth of the country's food...
...many novels sound better than they are. With Ragtime, just the opposite is true. Its lyric tone, fluid structure and vigorous rhythms give it a musical quality that explanation mutes. In Doctorow's hands, the nation's secular fall from grace is no catalogue of sin. no mere tour de force; the novelist has managed to seize the strands of actuality and transform them into a fabulous tale...
...story will run its course-in time." Then Graham will be off to bigger and better things. Already he's planning a re-enactment of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic on the 50th anniversary of that feat in 1977. But that's a mere stunt compared to his ultimate fantasy. "I'd love to do Napoleon's retreat from Russia," he says. "Wouldn't that...