Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resources of the Defense Department's own educational system, the world's largest, to train the men for all the services. He also suggested a complete re-examination of the whole concept of aptitude tests, saying that there is "ample evidence" that some of the tests reflect cultural value systems that are foreign to the underprivileged and therefore do not correctly assess their basic intelligence. As for medical rejects, military doctors will try to salvage the less serious of them by getting overweight men to diet away excess poundage. Next year, the doctors will also begin performing surgery...
...sources. Yesterday, the Defense Department said that the most recent survey (Dec. 25, 1965) showed the following percentages of Negroes in the Armed Forces in Vietnam; 14.8 per cent in the Army, 5.1 per cent Navy, 8.9 per cent Marine Corps, 8.3 Air Force. These figures, however, do not reflect the percentages of Negroes "on the front lines...
Billy's bequests to his sisters generally reflect his former relations with them. Polly is to get $50,000 outright and the income from $1,000,000 worth of tax-free municipal bonds-about $40,000 annually. Miriam gets the income from $100,000 worth of similar bonds-about $4,000 annually. Both sisters contend that Billy was of sound mind in making his bequests to them but was under the malign influence of unnamed persons in leaving most of his estate to the foundation, including the $1,100,000 in municipal bonds that will revert to the foundation...
...just been completed in the sleepy village of Nilor, 17 miles north of the present capital, Rawalpindi, and close to Islamabad, the projected new capital for all Pakistan. Says an official of the Pakistan Institute of Science and Technology: "We asked him to create a design that would reflect our Islamic architecture with in the structural limitations posed by the reactor...
Still, does lack of suspense matter? Hitchcock is more than a suspense-machine and a technician; his films reflect the work of a mature artist and contain great thematic depth and consistency. Using his familiar hero, the ordinary man plunged unexpectedly into a nightmarish world of melodrama, Hitchcock will allow the nightmare to bring about changes in his heroes: thematically, North by Northwest is about the redemption of a useless individual, The Man Who Knew Too Much about the emergence of a husband's desire to dominate his wife...