Word: scatteredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶TRANSPORTATION. Creation of a Cabinet-level Department of Transportation that would absorb a heterogeneous horde of agencies (total budgets: $6 billion) which are now scattered through the federal bureaucracy with responsibilities ranging from regulation of Great Lakes pilotage (Commerce) to the Government-run Alaska Railroad (Interior).
In the varying calculus of world politics, the principal constant is the fundamental conflict between regimes founded on repression and societies that aspire to liberty under law. The primary protagonists in the Cold War decades have been Communism and democracy; more immediately, they are Communist China and the U.S. And...
To prepare the way for an orderly transition after his death, Idris has been grooming his nephew, Crown Prince Hassan Rida, and at the same time altering and liberalizing the character of Libya's kingship. He is retiring more and more to his half a dozen domed and crenelated...
De Lumley and his diggers uncovered the remains of a structure about 60 ft. by 20 ft., which contained two fireplaces. Scattered about were pieces of charred wood and the bones of rabbits, boars, Elephas antiquus (the ancestors of mammoths), deer antlers, stone carving tools, and even fossilized human excrement...
The area immediately around the fireplaces is clear of debris, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants of the house slept near the fires on animal skins. There are several large flat stones scattered about, which may have been used as seats or for carving meat. The most important thing...