Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credits for R. and D. spending are another possibility. In addition, even those economists who insist on the importance of reducing federal spending make an exception for R. and D. outlays; their potential benefits far outweigh the costs. Several economists suggest that the Government put up matching funds to spur university research programs into ways to improve productivity of service industries?dry cleaners and restaurants, for example?in which most companies are too small to undertake any significant R. and D. That approach has enormously increased the productivity of farming...
...exile, then in his years as a seaman and later in the waters around Borneo-all of these episodes taken together created what Conrad knew about human depravity, baseness, degradation, and cruelty, as well as the individual's ability to survive such knowledge. The Congo alone did not suggest images of hell; it supported such experiences which Conrad had already accumulated...
...suggest that ... In the sense that he had learned not to give himself to uncertain plans, he may have come to the knowledge that a literary career was possible ... Ultimately, the Congo episode, which became so momentous in his later work, may have been no more than the kind of defeat which brought him to the brink of existence, his own rather than that of civilization. At that edge, where he had to stare into the abyss, he saw himself drowning, and the question for him was whether he was worth saving...
...they can get. As for theologians, the interchange between physics and metaphysics will inevitably enlarge their ideas and give them a more complex grounding in the physically observed universe. The theory of the Big Bang is surely not the last idea of creation that will be conceived; it does suggest that there remain immense territories of mystery that both the theologian and the scientist should approach with becoming...
MBTA spokesman John K. Leary Jr. said yesterday the MBTA plans to meet with its construction contractor to suggest revisions in their construction plans. Although an agreement will have to be hammered out, Leary said, the agency will suggest that only 30 to 40 per cent of the dirt come up next door to the Dudley...