Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIBERAL caucus did not officially form until several months later, the day after police cleared students from University Hall last Spring. Composed of a more even mix of junior and senior Faculty members, and professors from the humanities and natural sciences, the liberals gathered not to defend the institution, but to give direction to the inevitable changes they believed must come...
Around 1824, Porter turned to mural painting. For him, painting was not art but craft, and his murals were the common man's answer to the costly, imported French wallpapers that adorned fashionable American homes. Characteristically, Porter shared the secret of his paint-mixing techniques with the public by publishing instructions and recipe booklets: "Dissolve half a pound of glue in a gallon of water, and with this sizing mix whatever colors may be required for the work." Foliage could be stippled on with corks and sponges; bark was suggested by "giving a tremulous motion to the brush...
...problem seems to be that the rhetoric of ecology too often makes the subject look like a confused mix of unrelated alarms and issues. In fact, most of the issues are interrelated. The DDT that kills birds and fish may seem remote in importance when compared with the rats and garbage that infest ghetto slums. Yet both DDT and rats directly degrade the quality of U.S. life. Nevertheless, some aspects of the environmental problem are clearly more pressing than others. For example, public-health and land-use planning should rank higher than campaigns against litter and noise. Curbing carbon monoxide...
...Passage. "The very idea of transporting oil through the Arctic ice packs in 250,000-ton tankers causes ecologists to go green at the gills," says Zoologist Douglas Pimlott of the University of Toronto, "because sooner or later one will sink" and oil and icy water clearly do not mix...
...national product steadied in the second quarter. (Real G.N.P. rose at an annual rate of .3%, but the increase was so tiny as to be statistically insignificant.) As Administration officials had hoped, the engineered business downturn seems to have been prevented from skidding into a deep recession by a mix of remedies: higher Social Security payments, Government wage boosts and a Federal Reserve policy of again expanding the nation's money supply...