Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberal Democrat elders soon found that they could not do without Tanaka's proven talents as a vote getter. As secretary-general of the party during the 1969 elections, Tanaka masterminded the campaign that won the L.D.P. 300 of the 491 seats in the lower house of the Diet. At times, however, Tanaka has been an embarrassment to his party. Even after he took on Cabinet-level responsibilities, Tanaka continued to pursue his wide-ranging building and real estate interests. Though most Japanese politicians retain their business interests, Tanaka has been accused of not always keeping separate his public...
...skeptic has proven spiritualism to be valid, but there is a residue of the unexplained in these claimed psychic events, some occurrences that seem to defy the laws of chance or mere coincidence. It is just such phenomena that are currently being investigated by parapsychologists under the general heading of ESP, extrasensory perception: telepathy, communication from one mind to another without normal means; precognition, the prediction of future events; clairvoyance, the power to discern objects not present to the senses; and psychokinesis, the movement of material objects with the mind. While investigations go on, though, such gifts pose a problem...
...regulation that a man must have published a book of proven value is one of those rules that can be cited or waived, depending on the sentiments of the department. For example, Edward L. Keenan '57, received tenure almost two years before his book on Ivan the Terrible was published. Patrick L.R. Higonnet '58 who, like Keenan, became a professor in Spring, 1970, also had no published book at the time of his appointment. So even in the History Department, a man can get tenure without having completed a book. And while scholars in some other fields produce primarily articles...
OTHERS. Windmills have long provided limited power in the flat, open countryside, and the wind's force could also be tapped from tall towers anywhere. The big problem, again, is how to store the energy from this variable source. Other proven possibilities include harnessing the oceans' tides (a limited possibility at best), burning garbage as a low-grade fuel and, strangest of all, combining animal manure and carbon monoxide under heat and pressure to produce oil. Government researchers reckon that they can get three barrels of oil from every ton of manure, but the costs of collecting...
Franchise Deals. Today, Holiday Inns fields about 10,000 requests for franchises a year, but only 200 or so are granted, mostly to people who already own inns and are proven winners. The cost of land and construction is entirely financed by franchisees, who put up about a quarter to a third of the amount and borrow the rest from banks, insurance firms or mortgage companies. Lenders prefer prospective franchisees over independent owners because there is less risk of failure with a motel (hat is backed by the resources of a chain...