Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of 5.5%, up nearly one-half of 1% from 1977. Worst of all, it warns that the pattern of slow growth and high unemployment could become permanent for the world's industrial democracies, especially if governments throw up more protectionist barriers to trade in an attempt to save jobs...
...broke strict New England Small College Athletic Conference rules forbidding a coach to visit a prospect at his home. Cited by the conference last spring, he at first denied the misdeed to Bonner. "I lied," Harkness admits, adding, as if to explain everything, "but I lied to save my hockey program." He was suspended by Bonner but reinstated by the college trustees...
When a new male ascends to power, pregnant females use deceit in an attempt to save their unborn young from his later attack: they demonstrate estrus behavior to the new leader, presumably to trick him into thinking the future offspring are his. But once the new male shows that he is determined to kill the infants, the mothers abandon their young. Though they could gang up on the male or refuse to copulate with him after infanticide, Hrdy notes, it is always in their individual self-interest to break ranks and accept him. Reason: their own male offspring will eventually...
...York has a new mayor now, and he means well, but it remains to be seen if Uncle Ed can cope with the city's problems all by himself. The borough of Brooklyn can't be saved by people in Washington, or Albany, or even Manhattan; it has to save itself at the grass roots level, through community organizations and the spirit of self-help. That spark of life just doesn't seem to be present anymore...
...designed by Stephen S. J. Hall as a solar heating system to save money at Lowell House...