Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other alternatives. There is little personal incentive to carpool, and emissions controls can hardly become more stringent. Denver could build a mass rapid transit system, such as a light-rail system, and in fact Denver civic leaders have been talking for years about doing just that. Such a long term investment would likely be less expensive than paying the short term costs of automotive adjustments each year. But the money for such an investment would, of course, have to come from the taxpayers...
When Callenbach began researching the book, he recalled a work he had read while a student at the University of Chicago, Science and Sanity, in which author Alfred Korzybski talked about man's capacity for "non survival" behavior. "He used the term largely in a social sense, but it seemed applicable to a wide range of things that we started doing in this century and that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now persist even when circumstances have changed and the habits have become self-defeating." Callenbach mentions things like nuclear plants and chemical fertilizers that...
...need less of a public safety net -- and why we need more of a private safety net -- is that we need the savings for our economy. And the reason I'm an admirer of Japan and West Germany is that those two countries have a very deep, real, long-term economic consensus on capital formation that isn't just rhetoric...
...story is carried on through Churchill's 1945 defeat at the polls, the writing of his war memoirs, his second term at 10 Downing Street in the early '50s and, finally, his death at 90 in 1965. Gilbert's is the official biography, a day-by-day chronological account that seems to leave out nothing important and includes much that is not. Looked at on its own terms, it is an admirable monument to the great man, meticulously researched, scrupulously documented and well -- or well enough -- written...
...First Lady had continued to borrow clothes, but claimed they had all been returned. Then Crispen said that while some dresses had been borrowed, others had been received as gifts from "old friends" and hence did not have to be disclosed. Finally, Crispen declared that when the President's term expires, Mrs. Reagan will decide which dresses to keep and which to return. Those she retains, she will report as gifts. Those she returns will be considered loans and not listed...