Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proud Bengalis are unlikely to give in. A warm and friendly but volatile people whose twin passions are politics and poetry, they have nurtured a gentle and distinctive culture of their own. Conversation?adda?is the favorite pastime, and it is carried on endlessly under the banyan trees in the villages or in the coffeehouses of Dacca...
...campaign, the election could turn on the President's overriding domestic problem: the economy. The polls and the politicians say that the economy is the voters' No. 1 worry on the home front, and that people are displeased with the way the President is handling the twin troubles of unemployment and inflation. Labor unionists, feeling particularly victimized by rising prices, are using their ultimate weapon to force fat wage increases. Last week half a million telephone and railroad workers marched out on strike. Last week, too, labor chiefs and leading Democrats sharply stepped up their offensive against Nixon...
...dishes and a 130-ft. dish -so that any two of them could be used simultaneously. That technique gave him the resolving power of a huge single antenna with a diameter equal to the distance between the two antennas (up to 3,500 ft.). Then, aiming his twin instruments at two particularly powerful sources of radio energy, the galaxies M82 and NGC 253, * he quickly found what he was looking for: the characteristic signature of hydroxyl radicals, simple molecules composed of a single hydrogen and a single oxygen atom...
...Worry. The twin evils of inflation and unemployment among men force many women to seek jobs, but certainly not all of them do so because of economic need. All together 43% of the female work force is made up of married women whose husbands earn $5,000 a year or more. Mrs. Gloria Johnson, an official of the International Union of Electrical Workers (one-third of whose members are women), notes that the desire of married women to take jobs increases rather than decreases as they and their husbands turn the corner from being fairly poor to being fairly well...
Enrique, whose normal legs had been forced into a spread position by the deformity, must still spend several weeks in traction to correct this condition. But the doctors believe that further corrective surgery will be unnecessary. According to Donovan, Enrique's incomplete twin would have grown in proportion to the youngster's normal growth. Instead, he says, "We will send him home normal in every way, with only two scars to show for what might have been...