Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used as an aphrodisiac, but Indian monks take it to repress physical desires. Caribbean laborers use it by day as an "energizer," but by night as a sedative. Marijuana is a paradox...
...irony, the paradox of our universe is that each one of those 200 million stars are or were suns themselves. Therefore, it is not unlikely to expect that somewhere else our highly complex evolutionary system is repeated," Morrison said...
Zooming costs of processing and distribution have created a strange paradox. Higher farm prices instantly bring increases at the grocery checkout, but retail food prices can also go on rising while farm prices drop sharply. Example: the Soviet grain purchase of 1972 and other heavy export demand kicked off a few years of unprecedented farm prosperity. Net farm income more than doubled in three years to an unparalleled $33 billion in 1973, and soaring retail food prices combined with OPEC's oil gouging to produce double-digit inflation. In 1976 and 1977, farm prices broke; farm income shriveled...
...This paradox is always present in any survey of the British university system. Superficially, it seems more elitist and restrictive than the American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon...
...People's Republic of China is as much a land of paradox and poesy, blood, sweat, glory and incongruity as the riven country that greeted Marco Polo. The temples and tombs, palaces and pagodas and gardens, majestic mountains and mighty rivers, art and artifacts as old as civilization: they are all there, glittering, tangible and not quite believable. Off the usual tourist track are the ramshackle tenements, mud-walled village cottages and the grinding labor of the peasant, equally hard for the Westerner to comprehend. They will all become picture postcards of the mind, but on first encounter they...