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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly in iron ore, rubber and commercial banking. Tubman checks economic performance continually: an old law still on the books has it that all government expenditures of more than $200 must be approved by the President, and the President spends hours every week poring over the ledgers. As a result, important government work tends to be held...
...animal -notably by Konrad Lorenz-have to do with the biology of aggression and its implication for modern society. Evolution indicates that the aggressive instinct tended to preserve order within a tribal structure. But most human aggregates have gone beyond the tribe. And perhaps as an inevitable result, aggression no longer keeps but strains the peace. In man's simpler and less crowded past, aggression was both useful and effective; in man's present, it can lead to such thoroughly unanimal behavior as murder...
...result, countless young reporters, would-be lady novelists, daydreaming clerks and other aspiring writers around the country yearned to "make the Post." In the mid-'20s, unsolicited manuscripts poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
...cold storage and turned into a fireball, scoring 24 goals and 30 assists to become the division's most valuable player. This season "the Red Baron," as the St. Louis followers have dubbed the 6 ft., 190 lb. center, is still going strong and, as a result, so are the Blues. They are a runaway leader in the West Division; to their ever expanding pride, their 18-11-10 record includes a respectable 5 wins, 9 losses and 6 ties against the veterans of the East. They lead both divisions in defense, having allowed opponents a miserly average...
More interested in bullion than beauty, the Spanish conquistadores who overran the Indians in the 16th century systematically plundered all the golden artifacts they could find, either converting them to ingots on the spot or shipping them to Spain to be melted down. As a result, pre-Columbian objets d'art are so rare that any display of them is a notable event...