Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chapter on solar energy, written by Modesto A. Maidique, a business school assistant professor, is unabashedly bullish: "Given reasonable incentives, we believe that solar could provide between a fifth and a quarter of the nation's energy requirements by the turn of the century." The Harvard researchers have adopted the Department of Energy's extremely broad definition of solar to include not only power from the sun's rays but also hydropower and energy derived from the burning of "biomass," which includes wood, plants and other organic matter. The chapter's supposition is that rising costs...
...allows the selection of genetically superior bulls, but there has always been a little problem with the cows. Even the best breeders normally drop only one calf a year. Now Mother Nature has been beaten at her own game by a new method that enables ranchers and farmers to turn the best of their cows into instant supermoms, capable of producing whole herds of exceptionally meaty or big-milking offspring...
...litigation explosion in the U.S. has not just created choked courts and endless delay. It also means more power for judges. Tocqueville's observation, made more than a century ago, that there is "hardly a political question which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one" has never been truer...
Sounds like a very strained jape, doesn't it? Well, it is not. Indeed, this may turn out to be the warmest comedy of the year. For father really loves son, and would do anything to secure his happiness, while Zaza is really a very nice person underneath his plumage and his craziness. The girl has told her parents that her beloved's father is the Italian consul in Nice. Fine, then Zaza will act that role...
...theory is still far from proved, but it could have important consequences. If human tumors turn out to work in the same way, more effective strategies against cancer could be developed. One possibility is already being tried by specialists: administering anti-clotting drugs to prevent fibrin deposits...