Word: notes
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Yankee collectors have driven up the price of the 72-odd Confederate curren cies issued between 1861 and 1864. A $50 note issued in Alabama in 1861 can fetch up to $1,000, and a $5 bill from Richmond may bring up to $900. Particularly in demand are $100 notes depicting slaves hoeing cotton. Proving that more than one peanut farmer knows how to exploit his roots, a goober grower from Virginia enticed a collector into shelling out $10,000 for an 1861 Virginia $500 note...
...attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being Gang of Four sympathizers...
...most difficult task, however, is reconstructing an image of the creature who left these fossils behind. "It's a matter of comparative anatomy," explains Simons. "You study other animals -apes, humans and other primates. Then when you find a piece of bone, you note similarities and differences." The shape of the pelvis tells clearly whether its erstwhile owner walked on all fours or stood erect. Teeth, which are frequently preserved because of their tough, protective enamel, tell even more. Animals that eat meat need teeth shaped to cut and slice; vegetarians need broad molars to chew their fibrous foods...
...visiting committee members, accept economics as one aspect of planning but they claim that the current program gives short shrift to social, political and physical factors in the planning process. Faculty members who share Kain's viewpoint, many of whom entered the department within the last few years, note that the remaining core courses--Planning Process: Political and Institutional Analysis, Planning Law and Administration and Urban Growth and Spatial Structure--provide students with the necessary foundation in other relevant disciplines, including physical planning. H. James Brown Jr., professor of City Planning, sums up the opinion of many of his colleagues...
...business cannot expect to take all the increase in profits. The outcome, so far, is a debilitating uncertainty: the House passed Carter's program almost intact, the Senate dismembered it and no one can now predict what compromise may emerge from the conference committee. Meanwhile, businessmen apprehensively note that polls indicate that Carter has yet to convince the public that there is any energy crisis at all. Says Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corp.: "There is no consensus in this country for any energy policy, including ours...