Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their first house will be considerably more stylish than the average students' quarters. Luci noted that it has "two skylights, which I find just great, and besides, they save electricity." More specifically, the house at 1105 Heritage Way, of a type that rents for about $165 a month in Austin, is half of a new two-family duplex in one of the city's better residential neighborhoods. The Nugents will have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a cathedral ceiling in the living room, wall-to-wall carpeting in two rooms, an automatic dishwasher in the kitchen, air conditioning throughout...
...Today's college students are the engineers who will build the helicopters that evacuate the wounded from battle in Viet Nam. They are the doctors who will save the lives of the injured. They are the social scientists who will help make a viable country out of war-torn Viet Nam. They are the lawyers and political scientists who will be architects of peace. To sacrifice their lives to a sniper's bullet in the cause of "fairness" or "equality" is to defeat our purpose in being in Viet...
After duly noting that auto accidents kill 50,000 Americans a year, safety experts generally agree that the use of seat belts would save 10% of those lives and reduce serious injuries by one-third. Convinced by the grim statistics, legislators have made seat belts mandatory on new cars in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Still, studies show that motorists are unimpressed; they fail to buckle their belts 50% of the time. Now the law is beginning to develop a powerful persuader: failure to use a seat belt may well bar recovery in a personal-injury suit...
...spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...
...speaking role, Italy's Monica Vitti plays Modesty as haute couture: black jump suit for tussling with a would-be lover; slinky silk for all-out assaults; a peekaboo cape for evenings of casual intrigue. Ostensibly, Modesty is a retired criminal genius hired by the British government to save a shipment of diamonds en route to an oil-rich Middle Eastern sheikdom...