Word: twofold
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...separate category, Dr. Danhof put patients who suffer from flatulent diarrhea because of a deficiency in enzymes that digest ordinary table sugar. The remedy is twofold: enzyme supplements and restriction of sugar in food and drink. Finally, some people have a so-called intestinal allergy to some specific foods, such as chocolate or strawberries, or even milk. In such cases, the remedy is the simplest of all-don't eat or drink them...
...purpose of the London new towns was twofold. They were supposed to alleviate the post-World War II housing shortage and to mitigate industrial concentration in London. But the London ring achieved neither of these purposes. The development of the towns was retarded by so many battles between different levels of government and local interest groups that most of them took ten years to get off the ground. Moreover, while some London industry moved out to the new towns, other companies just replaced them...
...interests with those of the Negro, especially on the local level. Others stressed the exigencies of Vietnam and the need to ally with peace groups. (Rustin, whose career as a pacifist stems back to a jail sentence in 1943 for conscientious objection, chuckled noticeably.) Rustin's response was twofold: he agreed with those who stressed the contributions of the peace movement and the qualifications upon his proposed alliance; but he also expressed concern about the possibility of a more attractive alternative. "Present me with an alternative," he said, as he has said before. "If you can come up with...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and faculty associate of the Kennedy Institute, said that one of the most challenging problems is to "maintain the thin line between studying the Establishment and accepting everything it stands for." Hoffmann saw the purpose of the Institute as twofold...
Their objective has been twofold. They have wanted, first and most obviously, to provide a means of expression for broad-based moderate dissatisfaction with the war, an alternative to the strident protest of the New Left. In the belief that student discontent is prevalent and that the Administration may soon decide whether to further escalate the war, they have sought to mobilize a "middle course of opposition...