Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aims and methods in foreign policy. In the U.S., quite a few members of the mainly Democratic foreign policy Establishment are beginning to wonder whether he is really up to the job. Nothing serious has been lost so far and much may yet be gained from Carter's obvious good intentions, his openness to new ideas and his ability to inspire those who see or hear him. But the general pattern of his foreign policy actions creates genuine cause for worry about troubles ahead...
Scares has long held that elaborate consultations with the opposition on pending legislation could be interpreted as a "privileged relationship" that might erode his ability to govern. But when it became obvious that the Socialists did not have the votes to push through a crucial agrarian reform bill designed to reduce Communist control in the agricultural Alentejo, he had to compromise. While the C.D.S. refused to support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with...
...Africa three years, and then it is bound to explode unless certain changes have taken place. But this is not a case of Communists telling South Africans what to do, or of Marxists telling the people of Zimbabwe they are oppressed. There is no need for that: it is obvious...
...often the only drug advised by doctors, but warned that many people are courting disaster by using it without first seeking medical attention. In some cases, self-medication with aspirin may be inadequate and in others totally wrong. In gonorrhea, for example, arthritis-like pains are sometimes the only obvious symptom. Anyone relying on aspirin who has this disease is thus doing nothing to control the dangerous underlying bacterial infection...
Once this stage was reached, the fourth step came quickly. Realizing that impressing their shapes on the bullae made enclosing the tokens unnecessary, people abandoned the counters and began keeping their records directly on clay tablets. The efficiency of that technique was immediately obvious, says Schmandt-Besserat, and could explain not only how written record keeping evolved but also why writing spread so rapidly along the trade routes and quickly took hold throughout the civilized world of that day. But even the development of writing did not lead to the disappearance of the tokens. The written word, after all, helps...