Word: periode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, the Thermidorian period ended with the establishment of the five-man Directory late in 1795, after the suppression of a public revolt by a young Corsican officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon himself seized power in a 1799 coup d'etat...
...cheaper than most available mortgages would be. In effect, the President is paying off the additional land at today's prices, holding it and gambling on a continuation of the upward trend in real estate prices in the San Clemente area. Within the five-year period, the President will sell all but his five acres and house. If his gamble pays off, he will retire the debt on the borrowed money and perhaps even make a profit. Just to whom the President will sell is not known. It could be a "compatible" buyer-perhaps Nixon's wealthy, longtime...
...experts outside the Administration. In Saigon, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, an adviser to former President Johnson, said that Ho's death had provided a "timely moment" for the U.S. and South Viet Nam to propose negotiations on a ceasefire. Brzezinski argued that the death of a Communist leader creates a period of "intense political conflict" during which there is an opportunity to focus attention of the successors on "initiatives from abroad." At the very least, he said, "it is always possible that some faction will argue that a positive response ought to be made." In Paris, Professor Philippe Devillers, a longtime...
Familiar Pressures. Phillips suspects that the quality of expectation is all-important. He suggests, for example, that a decrease in the death rate might not occur during the period of anticipation before Christmas-perhaps because of the familiar pressures that also accompany that season. Or it might not apply to ordinary people whose birthdays are not celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional...
Today, with nearly every notable 19th century industrial structure in Western Europe safely preserved on film, the Bechers look forward to focusing more on objects of the future. The one such object that they see as "utterly representative of its period in man's history" is the spidery lunar module that successfully carried men to the moon...