Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regardless of the word count of one company's basal reader, Johnny is exposed to an average of three to five of these readers, plus additional readers, plus library books-all in the first grade. The average total vocabulary of our six-year-olds is somewhere beyond 4,000 words...
Murder, too, is extremely popular in Texas; more individuals are shot, stabbed and beaten to death there than in any other state, regardless of population. There are more murders each year in Dallas alone than in all of England, more murders in Houston than in Dallas. Writes Bainbridge: "There is always enough action in San Antonio to make it worthwhile for Alex's Reweavers, at 319 North Main Street, to keep in its window a large sign reading, 'We Weave Bullet Holes and Knife Cuts.' The proprietor, Alex Martinez, says he averages about four such jobs...
...text. But even some Democrats admitted that the bill was sound and the shelters needed. Concluded State Senate Republican Leader Walter Mahoney: "Thank God we have a Governor with the courage and vision to say. 'This is the right thing to do, and let's do it regardless of political consequences...
...Rabbinical Council of America asked all Orthodox Jewish congregations planning new synagogues to include fallout shelters, open them to everyone regardless of creed. Representing 800 rabbis with 1,500,000 followers, the council also urged that community shelters be built throughout the nation...
...scant 40% of aerospace contracts now let through competitive bidding would, he contends, help remind both the military and the industry that money, too, is a resource to be conserved. Says he: "It is completely out of gear to say that a scientist strives for the best regardless of cost. Our job is to get simplified, less costly solutions to defense problems. Defense depends not only on the performance of each unit, but on the number of units that the Government can afford to put in the field...