Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students' social hierarchy. For a while most students were considered to be divided into the "drug agg" (abr. for aggregation) or the "jock agg." Athletic ability, at a school where sports are required, and masculinity, at a school where most boys enter just before or after they reach puberty, are two psychological hangups that keep the jock cliques on top of the social hierarchy for the first two or three classes. The "drug agg" was a social reaction against the athletes. Drugs were their most salient, if least typical, characteristic...
...point he said impatiently, "Of course there's a fall-out rate in meditation! And I think there are millions of people in this world we cannot reach...
When jubilation over recovering the survivors had passed, officials commented sadly that it would take some time to reach the ten bodies in the farthest section. The families of the trapped miners had wandered back to their homes at Hominy Falls (pop. 400) and neighboring hamlets, and began to make less frequent trips to the site. Sobbed Foreman Frank Davis, one of those rescued: "No chance, no chance." Still, it is a mining tradition to keep working until bodies are recovered, so pumping operations continued round the clock as boreholes were drilled 250 feet down to the shaft...
...already "out of control." Thus its level may rise unchecked to mind-damaging proportions. By coincidence, the Worcester Foundation research team working with Dr. John R. Bergen discovered and tested similar blood fractions simultaneously with the Lafayette team. They injected the substance into rats that had been trained to reach food by climbing a rope. The injections disoriented the rats and impaired their climbing ability. A similar effect on a rat's shinnying skills is also caused by derivates of 3,4, dimethoxyphenethylamine (DMPEA), more simply known as "the pink spot" because of its color in paper chromatography tests...
When the merger takes effect next month, it will certainly be a Simon-sized work. The three companies, which did a total of $920 million in business last year, should easily reach a billion dollars this year. This would be only appropriate for what may be Simon's last great corporate stroke. Simon, who will give up his post as chairman of Hunt's finance committee, will be only one among the new firm's directors, says that he has "looked forward for several years to devoting more time to personal and public affairs...