Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closest approximations of truth. Because we are social beings who act and who correspondingly reflect upon our actions, we are possessors of that truth and we have a certain contribution to make in arriving at that truth. The instructor, because he possesses more information and has a vaster store of experiences his students, guides his students and in turn is guided by them...
...only are private investors flocking to gold, but governments too are beginning to come back. It might even be argued that they never really left in the first place. Though U.S. policy since 1944 has been to "demonetize" gold and thereby reduce its importance as a store of any nation's wealth, the link between the dollar and gold is stronger than it has been in years...
...candy store is open every day of the week," writes Asimov of those early days. "In some respects, it made me an orphan." The demands of the store cut him off from his parents; Isaac's behavior severed him from his contemporaries. For he was not only brighter than his older classmates, he was eager to make them aware of his stratospheric...
...lonely, insufferable kid was father of the gifted man. Forbidden to read the lurid pulp magazines sold in the store, Isaac pored over science-fiction monthlies. He soon began to send them short stories. At an age when many fellow students were struggling to express themselves, Asimov, who entered Columbia University's Seth Low Junior College at age 15, helped pay for his college and graduate school with fiction that sold for a penny a word. At a time when many young men were looking for their first postcollege jobs, Asimov published what became one of the most anthologized...
Financial security has meant a great deal to the candy-store owner's son. But what Isaac Asimov enjoys even more than comfort is that festival of contradictions known as Isaac Asimov. The man who talks like a randy bachelor is, in fact, the proud father of a son and a daughter, both in their 20s, and the husband of Psychiatrist Janet Jeppson (his first marriage ended in divorce in 1973). The robust and prodigious eater is the survivor of a 1977 heart attack as well as a thyroid cancer operation. The inveterate partygoer and dazzling conversationalist never drinks...