Word: propellent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process in brief: plant tissue is mushed up, placed in a clear, jelly-like mix of nutrients and injected with hormones
What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a way the motorist might deplore...
Running back Bill Heyde led the Green charge in the second half, scoring twice from the one to propel his team to a 20-14 lead...
Each black student must, therefore, act on his or her own. Each must, in the words of Booker T. Washington, "drop you bucket where you are," which means that each student must act within his or her immediate context, and wait not upon the weight of the herd to propel change...
Thus, even if the center-right wins, the immediate postelection period might produce a small but embarrassing rise in the unemployment rate. Prices, too, are likely to climb; increases in rail, utility and public housing costs are already in the pipeline and threaten to propel inflation past the present rate of 7%. Similarly, France will come under increasing pressure, along with other Western industrial nations, as Third World countries continue to challenge it with their improving industrial strength. Such factors, coupled with disappointment over the left's defeat, might create a wave of strikes or demonstrations by exasperated workers...