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...Pretoria, South Africa: "Meat eating and hunting were important factors. If you remained a vegetarian, the necessity for culture was not nearly as great." Richard Leakey too believes that hunting helped to make emerging man a social creature. Says he: "The hominids that thrived best were those able to restrain their immediate impulses and manipulate the impulses of others into cooperative efforts. They were the vanguard of the human race...
...famous stateroom scene and then left it torn up into tiny strips for the others to find and paste together. And in the end, it seems that the Marxes' relationship with Thalberg was a truly dialectical one, in which Thalberg succumbed to Marxist absurdist consciousness even while trying to restrain it: how many other producers who walked into the office to find four naked men roasting potatoes over a makeshift bonfire would have had the presence of mind to send to the MGM commissary for butter...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia--The United States, under pressure from its allies, has agreed to restrain its criticism over the violations of human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, sources in the State Department said yesterday...
...board is now trying to restrain the growth of money; in consequence, interest rates are rising. Last week it let demand for money push the Fed funds' rate as high as 6¼%, instead of pumping cash into banks to stop the rise. Other short-term rates are going up too. Chase Manhattan last week led the way for other major banks in lifting the prime rate charged to their best corporate customers by a quarter of a point, to 7¼%, the highest in a bit more than a year. Three-month U.S. Treasury bills, which traded...
...recession that ended in mid-1975, steel profits climbed. But now, in the midst of recovery, steelmakers seem to be caught in the grip of Murphy's Law: if anything can go wrong, it will. They are beset by production cutbacks and layoffs, Government pressure to restrain price increases while spending heavily to comply with antipollution rules, and the industry's first sizable strike (by iron-ore workers) since 1959. Executives have also begun squabbling among themselves. Last week Armco Steel not only refused to go along with an industry price boost of 6% on structural steel...