Word: tenderize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remaining Poor. Queensland Mines officials have been trying to overcome the aborigines' fear of the ants' anger by offering them higher and higher sums for mining rights. The bids started with a "good-will" tender of $7,425 in 1971; they have since grown to a package including $891,000 in cash plus a 3.75% royalty, totaling $13,619,000. The company is willing to invest so much because the uranium deposit is conservatively valued at $300 million. In a plot only 755 ft. by 33 ft., there are more than 443,000 tons of uranium ore -roughly...
...less cost-conscious than his four brothers. While they tended to reflect their father John D. Jr., a shy philanthropist and devout Baptist, Nelson was closer to his mother Abby, the daughter of the powerful Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. It was Abby who imbued her son with a tender social conscience and a lifelong love...
...that time the group completely dominated the U.S. rock scene. If Bob Dylan was the generation's prophet, C. S. N. & Y. was its social conscience. Their songs about campus murders (Ohio), conspiracy trials (Chicago) and racism (Southern Man) were uncompromising, but the message was balanced with more tender lyrics like Teach Your Children and On the Way Home...
...story collection Laughable Loves. The book is light, wry and wise. Over and over again, Kundera sets up the classic situation of sexual farce: A realizes intuitively that B is interested, and therefore swells with vanity and lust; in reality, however, B's interest is in C, whose tender signals are meant...
...than endanger the rights and sovereignty of the 400,000 Greeks and 115,000 Turks living on Cyprus--a fact which the U.S. government can ignore just as it now ignores the repression of the Greek people by an illegal junta that is propped up by American aid. The tender peace that now exists in the entire eastern Mediterranean powder keg is threatened by Athens's illegal aggression. The smoldering strife between Greece and Turkey could explode as a result...