Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some have been started by the recent claims that levitation by mere intention, disappearing from sight without actually going anywhere, supernormal compassion, and other unusual abilities are being experienced by growing numbers of participants in Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation program...
...this framework, then, the ability to levitate by mere intention comes from an intimate awareness of some-law or laws by which one is able to counter, negate or otherwise control the effects of gravity on oneself. The process is not so different from crawling or walking...
...prize was a mere $50, but when Connecticut's Mohegan Community College called for a competition, 12,000 limericks arrived from every state and a couple of foreign countries. The absurdly prolific science writer Isaac Asimov, who numbers three volumes of Lecherous Limericks among his 180 or so published books, volunteered to be the judge...
Pepper contends that "this portends no cataclysm of the economy." The Labor Department agrees, estimating that, over the next five years, the number of workers who will choose to work beyond age 65 will be only about 200,000-7% of the workers of that age and a mere two-tenths of 1% of the entire labor force. But while the statistical impact may prove minimal, the psychological shifts may be considerable. On the one hand, the stultifying effect on younger workers who see their careers stalled indefinitely by senior workers clinging to their jobs could hinder creativity in industry...
...genetic manipulation, incidental assassination, government machination and Russian marination. Bagley, 54, who knows his computers and test tubes, is equally at home with his locales (England and Sweden, in this book) and his personae, who can be both touching and tough. The Bagleyan denouement raises his novel from mere artifice to the artful...