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...women's teams that practice on the strained facilities--the swim, basketball and squash teams--the merger turned into what many Radcliffe athletes now term a "sub-merger...
...million bbl. of oil per year. But even greater promise is offered by more than 545 billion tons of coal. At present rates of use, Wyoming could supply the nation's total coal demand for a quarter-century. Much of the coal is low-polluting, low-sulfur sub-bituminous that lies in miles-long, 45-ft.-thick seams only a few feet below the surface...
...sub was at sea when Sadat learned what was going on and ordered its captain to return to his base at Alexandria...
Sadat declined to explain how another Arab leader could issue orders to an Egyptian sub. Such an attack probably would have failed anyway, since both British and Israeli air and naval units were screening the liner against possible attack...
Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw that democracy would have the effect of flattening the peaks of excellence while elevating the sub-par or the average. The danger is that in glorifying the least common denominator, democracy mandates mediocrity. The hope is that such a system will encourage a universal standard of excellence in every pursuit. Tocqueville took it for granted that the leveling process in a democracy would produce a mean?but not a happy mean...