Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature raises some of the most difficult moral questions that men must face. Obviously, these dilemmas have grown infinitely graver as technology has equipped the allegedly civilized nations with the hardware for inflicting catastrophic destruction. Was Hiroshima necessary in order to save the lives that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan? Did the firebombings of Dresden hasten the end of the war in Europe...
...young mother walked in the street clutching her dead baby to her chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands of refugees crowded the highways, carrying what belongings they had been able to save. Surveying the damage, as vultures circled over a 320-block wasteland that had been designated a "contaminated area," Lieut. Colonel José Alagret, commander of Nicaragua's army engineers, said sadly, "This is a city that was, but is no more...
...should slip from last year's 2,400,000 to about 2,100,000, but that is one decline that is healthy. Federal housing subsidies have helped keep construction at such a high pace for the past year or so that there has been some overbuilding. The consumer savings rate is likely to increase slightly, to about 7.5%. One reason: consumers may well save some of the $5 billion to $10 billion in tax refunds that they stand to collect early this year because of the Treasury's overwithholding from paychecks...
...chivalrous Indian fighter, compelled to slaughter Crows because they killed his family. Thus compromised, the movie still has some virtues. It was photographed in Utah, and the landscapes of fall and winter are regally beautiful. In fact no one seems to fill the screen as well as the mountains, save for Stefan Gierasch, whose performance as a rapscallion mountain man named Del Grue is joyous and exceptionally inventive...
...Book of Daniel is not, however, a mopping-up operation for a "Save the Rosenbergs" Defence Committee. The novel's most persuasive appraisal of the case comes from a "New York Times reporter" who feels that the Isaacsons were probably framed on the A. Bomb secrets case, but must have been guilty of some two-bit local operation which in a sane society would have cost them five-years behind bars. What concerns Doctorow is the cause of the couple's Communism, and the effects of its unexamined nature...