Word: nevertheless
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Venezuela's quinquennial election last week was complicated by more than two dozen competing parties and an electorate of 4,000,000 that is at least one-quarter illiterate. Nevertheless, an ingenious ballot preserved the essence of democratic form. At 15,315 polls, voters received a stack of colored cards and an envelope. Each card was a different color to represent a party, and the campaign publicity had been heavy enough that even illiterates could choose correctly from the spectrum. The incumbent Action Democrdtica, for example, had a pristine white card. Action's closest competition, the Social
...might be concluded from these findings that exposure of children to punished antisocial or other types of models is likely to result in little overt imitative behavior. Nevertheless, the observed behavior is learned and may be exhibited on future occasions given appropriate instigation, the instruments necessary for performing the imitative acts, and the prospect of sufficiently attractive positive rewards contingent on the successful execution of the behavior...
...still seems incredible that in the days of violence no one was killed. Occasionally, trapped policemen would fire in the air. One unidentified civilian fired three shots, but no witness could discover his target. Nevertheless, the report is a warning that another confrontation might not be so fortunate. It notes: "To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot...
...vacation retreat in Florida, Nixon worships at Key Biscayne's Presbyterian church. Nevertheless, he still lists himself as a Quaker. His mother described him once as "an intensely religious man, but he shuns even the restrained rituals of the faith. I am sure other Quakers understand my son. They know why he has been the center of so many controversies. Quakers are gentle and tolerant people, but they are also stubborn in defending their opinions and high-minded in pursuing their ideals...
...passed, these bills would do much to ensure the accuracy and honesty of polling techniques. Nevertheless, the plethora of increasingly subtle problems, many of which have only emerged in the last year, would remain unresolved...