Word: provenances
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Regina's "Telebus" system, begun as an experiment six months ago, has proven to be a remarkable success. It is not only convenient for the 18,000 residents in the 3-sq.-mi. district now served by Telebuses but also financially beneficial for the city transit system, which needs more passengers to cut its deficit. During a particularly bitter cold snap early in January, the city's eleven 42-passenger Telebuses responded to an average of 2,000 calls per day. Cost of the service: 35?, only a dime more than the standard fare...
...place-would scarcely have been noticed. Today, though, the lands bordering the Persian Gulf have a strategic importance to both East and West. Collectively, the Trucial States* and their neighbors on the gulf have a petroleum reserve of at least 345 billion bbls.-56% of the world's proven oil supply. Moreover, the power vacuum created in December when Britain pulled out the last of its political officers and military forces from the Trucial States has yet to be filled...
Charisma never was and never will be a negotiable asset of Nixon's, but the man who brought us the forgettable public tragedies of Checkers and Cambodia and the toothless tiger of Phase II has proven that we do not value charisma as much as we think we do. Or that, more precisely, charisma is not the sine qua non that it is cracked up to be. His career testifies that a patient, practised and lucky player can finesse a winner from a political hand as apparently irreparably weak as Nixon's was after his defeat in California...
...political poker through a number of proven strategies: a Fair Deal, a Square Deal, a New Deal. If Nixon wins in November, the strategy of the Big Sleep will have to be added to the list of successful political approaches...
...look at other areas of our technology that have, or will have, great impact on our daily lives: What are we to say about the proposals of some geneticists that sexual reproduction be replaced by the banking of the sperm and eggs of men and women "of proven genetic worth?" Fertilization could be guided artificially, then the zygote could be implanted in a host mother. Who is to decide what are "desirable" genes, and by what method...