Word: tweens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These scraps aside, there is no real evidence of strain be tween the President and his adviser, perhaps because a care ful reconstruction of the chronology of events in Paris and Saigon (see box, page 21) indicates both must share some responsibility for the breakdown in reaching an agreement. Kis singer seems to have underestimated the difficulty of the remaining "details" to be worked out. It was odd for a man of Kissinger's caution to have been so euphoric and expansive as he was on Oct. 26. His anticipation was too great, relying too much on what he called...
...creeping blandness was probably foreordained. Commercial television is simply not prepared to accept the savage satire of the movie original. Beyond that, no series could hope to recreate the film's peculiar tension be tween comedy and horror. The writers seem to have given up their initial efforts and now stand on their cliches...
There are differences, however, between Potts' vehicle and the no less obsessive rods and dragsters of the West Coast. The chief one is that Potts' car barely functions at all. The spidery space-frame chassis, underslung be tween bicycle wheels and clearing the ground by less than two inches, has no place for a driver. Radio controlled, it can hit 10 m.p.h., trailing rhetorical howls and crackles from its methanol-fueled engine and wreathed exhausts. In short, Potts has made a perfectly use less machine, an exquisitely tooled piece of four-wheeled costume jewelry...
...producing 40 billion kw-h of electricity. Today it takes 25% of all its fossil fuels (plus some fissionable uranium) and produces 1.6 quadrillion kwh, or 34% of the world's output. The largest share of this power (40% ) goes to industry; the rest is split mostly be tween commercial (22%) and residential (34%) uses...
Finally, behavioral sex differences show up long before any baby could possibly perceive subtle differences be tween his parents or know which parent he is expected to imitate. "A useful strategy," says Harvard Psychologist Jerome Kagan, "is to assume that the earlier a particular difference appears, the more likely it is to be influenced by biological factors...