Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great has been the population flow toward the city that entire hinterland villages stand vacant or nearly so. About 120,000 people from outlying provinces move to Athens every year, with the result that 40% of Greece's citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation...
...soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance to the school's twelve-week program for gifted children; later, he was admitted. "But it was mostly arts and crafts with a few field...
...neon-lit glass refrigerator in which desserts whirl around and around. The wallpaper looks like a hybrid of 14th century French tapestry and Peter Max. And the 50 foot long expanse of picture window glass on one edge of the dining room looks out on a Huntington Avenue cab stand...
...characters serve as allegories for social classes and periods in Mexican history. The same holds true in The Hydra Head. Timon and Ayub represent Arab competition with Mexico in the oil market. Their opposition to the president stems from Mexico's refusal to join OPEC. The director and Bernstein stand for Mexico's business sector's desire to gain control of government policy-making concerning oil. In the middle, the confused Maldonado, with his changing faces and indecisiveness, symbolizes Mexico. Fuentes makes him a converted Jew both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world. His impotency...
...company also bombards the public with advertising. To quote again from the annual report: "Advertising... is a fine way to carry on a dialogue with the public on topical issues. The Involved American Campaign of 1977, for example, appealed to citizens to take a stand on a number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government...