Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert G. LeTourneau, 80, giant of the earth-moving industry, who for 33 years pledged 90% of his personal earnings to a myriad of Christian causes; of a stroke; in Longview, Texas. In an industry noted for the size and power of its machines, none matched the Brobdingnagian creations of LeTourneau, which constituted 70% of the heavy earth-moving equipment used in World War II. LeTourneau credited his success to a "partnership with God" made in 1932 when he resolved to pledge all his future profits and much of his energy to religion. "The more time I spent...
...comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns, jewelry, papier-mâché trays. What happened? When other cities began producing their own textiles, proud Manchester withered. But, Jane Jacobs delightedly points out, poky Birmingham's underlying diversity allowed it to adapt creatively to changing technologies and markets...
...costs to educate them." That is, already one should visualize the tuition as going into a general fund used to support what the Corporation calls the "University." That complex may then exist and thus give one the opportunity to benefit from the use of a few of its myriad functions and facilities. What share a student should pay to perpetuate the entire community is a somewhat arbitrary decision. Right now I feel it is based on a hierarchy of priorities that drastically needs reassessment. And for those costs that are increasing it should be shown why students should bear those...
...myriad problems and risks posed by the nuclear age, none weighs so heavily on the strategist, politician and scientist as the need to anticipate the military balance five and ten years hence. Such foresight is a necessity because of the long lead time required to perfect weapons systems. The difficulty of reading the tarot cards of Atomic Age technology and rival nations' intentions is at the heart of the anti-ballistic-missile dispute...
...sufficient to reduce even the shaggiest tale to several digits, say a "234 with a half-twist." Thankfully no such volume yet exists, for whole weeks might be lost in the effort to enumerate Good Art It, which far from being plotless, abounds with the treasured moments of myriad plots. On short count, the following old dependables seem to have resurfaced for the occasion: (a) slightly neurotic actress has stormy relationship with egotistic co-worker, breaks it off and meets nice but slightly square younger man, who proves a shade too comprehensible for her artist's blood, so she goes...