Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who are reclassified as blacks ever succeed in reversing the decision. An appeal to a special board costs $28, and involves exhaustive and sometimes humiliating questioning ("Why are your lips so thick?"). Coloreds almost never object formally to being reclassified as white, because of the social privileges they gain, and in many cases actually petition to have their racial status upgraded. Before reaching a decision, officials interrogate the applicant's longtime friends, employers, landlords, but never reveal to the petitioner what has been said about...
...object of the experiment was to shoot a bunch of copper wires into a thin, high band that could be used to relay radio microwaves around the curve of the earth. But even before the first rocket of the Air Force Project West Ford blasted off its pad, the protests of outraged scientists soared into orbit. Metal wires, the world's astronomers warned, would also reflect sunlight, fogging the photographic plates of optical telescopes. They would foul up radio astronomy by reflecting man-made radio waves and masquerading as distant stars or galaxies...
...from radio astronomers. "The experiment is not useful." said Dr. David Heeschen, director of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory. "It may have a long-range effect on radio astronomy." Said Dr. Harold Weaver, director of the University of California's Hat Creek Observatory: "We object. We may be a fossil science barely after we've been born...
Drawing heavily upon Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews for her information, Arendt tries to make the case that Jews were saved in those countries where the citizenry was gallant enough to object. The truth is less dramatic and more circumstantial. In countries like Denmark and Italy, which were only superficially controlled by the Nazis, the Jews were relatively safe. In countries run by the Nazis - Poland, Holland, Greece - the Jews were invariably massacred. Sad as it may be to record, the courage and the dedication of the local Resistance fighters made no difference...
...that much of the gain was due to changes in bookkeeping, plus the surprising inclusion of profits from one subsidiary that Defiance had not even taken over until two weeks after Defiance's fiscal year had ended. A pair of Defiance stockholders is suing the management because they object to a deal in which the trio last year paid almost three times its book value to get control of one company. Wall Street is also skeptical of such tactics, and the stock of Defiance has dropped from a 1962 high of 13⅞ to 6⅝last week; B.S.F...