Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceptional courage in war--but also when "honor" did not seem to demand it. For example, a dead warrior's wives would vie madly with one another for the privilege of being the one "favored" by being killed so as to join the husband in death. Then, too, a segment of the population, the Getai, told an interesting legend about resurrection. It seems that the god Zalmoxis told man that he would enjoy eternal life after death. When Zalmoxis died he was resurrected three years later, and though the Greek commentator Herodotus speculated that perhaps Zalmoxis had merely hidden...
...increase in coal use by 1985, but they assume that this will happen as an automatic consequence of forcing power plants and factories to switch from oil and gas to coal as boiler fuel. This may be too ambitious a target, since it could be achieved only if that segment of U.S. industry that is capable of using coal as fuel multiplies its consumption four or five times above present levels in less than a decade. The Senate has voted the Administration less authority than it wanted to order plants to switch to coal, and Carter's plan...
...Cambridge Baptist church, 1151 Mass. Ave. The two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. include jazz by Stan Strikland and his group Sundance, dance by Carolyn Brown, film and slides by Ken Brown, but no folk. I listed this because the flyer promises an "audience participation segment" in each show, which sounds kinky. Go, but don't tell me about...
...only argument that can be made for abortion is that it constitutes a means of reducing a burden to a particular segment of society. This appeal to social expedience is the same argument used to justify capital punishment and "protective reaction" warfare: the assumption that human lives may legitimately be sacrificed for the good of a society that is not under immediate attack. It may be painful to admit, but this view is morally bankrupt: Congress and the American people should not tolerate...
...yards and two touchdowns) engineered a 53-yard drive to the New England 18. With the ball on the 18, second down and nine to go, the Browns brought out Cockroft, who lofted a 35 yarder for the win, 4:45 into the overtime segment...