Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taiwan's jitters are diplomatic, not economic. Taiwan is today a mini-industrial power. Although the island's population-16.6 million-is only one-fiftieth of mainland China's, its trade with the U.S. is 14 times greater than that of its huge neighbor-nearly $5 billion last year. Taiwan's robust growth rate-more than 10% in most of the years since the 1960s-has boosted its G.N.P. to just over $17 billion. During the worldwide recession of 1974-75, inflation whirled up to a 40% annual rate for a while, but the regime...
...told me what to do and I did it." Again: "Sam told me to do it. Sam sent me on an assignment. I had to do what I had to do. I had my orders. Sam sent me." Who is Sam? Berkowitz said Sam is at the moment a neighbor of his named Sam Carr, but "really is a man who lived 6,000 years ago. I got the messages through his dog. He told me to kill. Sam is the Devil...
Good Friend. Gaddafi, for his part, is annoyed that Egypt is becoming a good friend of Libya's alienated southern neighbor Chad. The government of Chad is battling a rebellion in the north; it has accused Libya of backing the rebels. There are rumors that Egypt is planning to give Chad military aid to fight the rebels and, ultimately, Libya...
Sociobiologists believe that self-deception is also a product of evolution, simply because a cheater can give a more convincing display of honesty if he lies to himself as well as to his neighbor. Says Zoologist Richard Alexander of the University of Michigan: "Selection has probably worked against the understanding of such selfish motivation becoming a part of human consciousness." Adds Trivers: "The conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution...
When it comes to celebrations, folks in Spartanburg, S.C., do not limit themselves to just the usual American holidays. Last week, for instance, a few days after the Fourth of July, they all turned out for Bastille Day. French Consul Jacqueline Dietrich borrowed a spit from a German neighbor, ordered supplies from Franz Kastner's gourmet delicatessen (Perrier water, lox and asparagus), invited the Swiss consul and representatives from Spartanburg's 40 European companies to celebration and song. Rudolf Mueller, manager of Menzel, Inc., a German-owned plant that makes textile machinery, was not there this time...