Word: scales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun. So far none of those investigations has produced even an indictment, much less a conviction. Charges Hero Rodriguez Toro, editor of the weekly newsmagazine Proceso: "We have a curious method of punishing the offense, a method which operates in frank favor of the delinquent. When a large-scale offender is apprehended and charged, it is demanded that he return the stolen money. Once this is done, the delinquent suddenly recovers his lost
Deploying some 180,000 soldiers, Hanoi showed signs it might be preparing a full-scale "dry season" offense aimed at wiping out Pol Pot's force of 30,000 guerrillas once and for all. If so, it was feared that China might take direct action in defense of Pol Pot, and even perhaps launch another "punitive" attack like its massive invasion of Viet Nam last February. A Chinese military operation on that scale would again raise the risk of direct Soviet intervention...
Keller says the $2 million endowment the capital campaign will leave the Danforth Center will support its operations on their current scale...
Whether Jones sleeps easily at night is a matter between him and his pharmacist. But reader's of "Irrevy:" An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power may conclude that the nuclear industry is killing people on a scale the Son of Sam could only dream of. Author John W. Gofman asserts that everyone in the industry shares responsibility for the peculiar modern crime of "premeditated random murder." Gofman chairs the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, which has published his collection of talk given at anti-nuclear rallies and in a debate with Edward Teller, famous for his H-bomb paternity...
...concise eloquence, expresses a great lesson in a few words: it touches upon substantial problems and basic questions that have in no way lost their relevance. Everywhere young people are asking important questions--questions on the meaning of life, on the right way to live, on the true scale of values: "What must I do...?" "What must I do to share in everlasting life?" This questioning bears witness to your thoughts, your consciences, your hearts and wills. This questioning tells the world that you, young people, carry within yourselves a special openness with regard to what is good and what...