Word: partialities
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...kind of daydream that could often justify Western colonial adventures or military conquest. On the "Marvels of the East" (as the Orient was known in the Middle Ages) a fantastic edifice was constructed, invested heavily with Western fear, desire, dreams of power and, of course, a very partial knowledge. And placed in this structure has been "Islam," a great religion and a culture certainly, but also an Occidental myth, part of what Disraeli once called "the great Asiatic mystery...
...remember the last time a draft of an audit like this was released," John Blamphin, an HEW spokesman, said last night. He said HEW decided to release the report in response to the request of a Congressional committee and to partial news accounts about the audit which appeared in the national press this week...
...reward techniques and finally felt ready to turn them over to two handicapped people. One was a Mystic, Conn., woman who worked with Tish for three months before the experiment was halted. The other was William Powell, 31, who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down, except for partial use of his right arm (though not his hand), since a motorcycle accident a decade...
...Council voted 6-4 on November 30 to rescind its nine-year-old ordinance accepting the rent control provisions of the state legislature's Rent and Eviction Control Act of 1970. Cambridge and Brookline are the only Massachusetts cities that still have full rent control laws. Boston has a partial rent control system...
...base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total and partial eclipse is "like night...