Word: roote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy-the root of the trouble -even more. While other Arab nations prosper on oil, Egypt is too poor-and too overpopulated-to help itself. Foreign investment has been frightened off by uncertainty or, as in the case of a proposed $150 million Ford Motors plant, wiped out by the Arab boycott. Agriculture is so feeble that Egypt must import two-thirds of its food at a cost of $1.5 billion a year. Government foreign currency reserves are dwindling as world food prices rise, while the standing army of 850,000 men consumes a third...
...Brews. As rising coffee prices break through the $3-per-lb. barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick...
...Phillips at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 9, knows both pass patterns and strategies from his days as executive editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Cave played some tough touch football in school ("I liked being the lonely end-it was safer out there"), but never got a chance to root for his college colors: St. John's in Annapolis does not compete in intercollegiate sports...
...greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing the protracted unrest in Hupei and Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said to have dispatched agitators to the industrial center of Wuhan in Hupei province for the purpose of forming a Chiang Ch'ing power clique. According to one broadcast, the conspirators spoke to each other only...
Thus America's energies were released to populate and build a continental nation and to perfect domestic institutions. As we did so, both our pragmatic nature and our moral commitment took deeper root in the national character−but often as seemingly separate and even contrasting factors. When faced in 1802 with the attempt of France to control the mouth of the Mississippi, Thomas Jefferson was above all concerned with the future prospects of French control over trade in and out of the American heartland...