Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional vehicle registration or sales taxes, diversion of highway funds from the three bay counties to be served by BART. But thus far, parochial interests or lobbyists have stymied every solution. The delay has prevented BART from opening bids on the new cars for the system. That may in turn delay the opening of BART, scheduled for 1970, until well into...
...demand from their own manufacturers-better-grade products. In order to slip away from the Soviet embrace, Sik wants to borrow $500 million in Western Europe if the Soviets will not provide what he needs. With that money, Czechoslovak plants could buy the new equipment that they need to turn out high-quality products to sell in competitive Western markets...
...eventually negates itself, every profound idea will give rise to another refuting it, and that every revolution leads to inevitable counterrevolution. Even nihilism and atheism are false options, since they too involve a commitment that will eventually crumble. "At our limits a God appears, or something that serves his turn," says Cioran, who is at once an unbeliever and a profoundly religious man. "I fall back on God, if only out of a desire to trample my doubts underfoot." Yet Cioran rejects faith as just another self-deception. "I write to rid myself of my obsessions, of my anguish...
Janis Joplin is hooked. She has to turn on almost every night. "I'm on an audience trip," she says. "When I go on stage to sing, it's like the 'rush' that people experience when they take heavy dope. I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. Sex is the closest I can come to explaining it, but it's more than sex. I get stoned from happiness. I want to do it until it isn't there any more...
...decide between intensive care to the irreversibly ill and broad basic medical care to the many. Doctors are dedicated to the extension of human life by virtue of the binding Hippocratic oath. In the light of family feelings and the traditional Western regard for life, it is difficult to turn of the respirator, as the report recommends, just because a report redefinition of death is satisfied