Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposes in this report have been twofold...
...trouble, Seel suggests, may be twofold. The most widely used mold is Aspergillus flavus, some growths of which secrete substances called aflatoxins. For some animals, these are among the most powerful cancer-causing agents known. Moreover, says Seel, the stomach lining seems especially liable to damage, including cancer, in those with vitamin A deficiency. Among Koreans who had both low vitamin A readings and a high consumption of soya paste, stomach cancer was twice as common as among other groups...
...basic problem involved seems twofold. First is a failure to communicate between black students and the Faculty. This failure cannot be allowed to continue. The second is a lack of close and honest consideration for black students. In his speech to the Faculty, Professor Rosovsky seemed more interested in defending the integrity and intent of the Rosovsky Committee and of its report than in honestly considering the desperate need for institutionalized communication between Faculty and blacks, or the vital necessity and great value of the black student's participation in the creation of Afro-American Studies at Harvard...
...Twofold Malaise. In the more formal arenas of politics, France's opposition parties have failed to exploit the Gaullist shortcomings. Reduced by the Gaullist landslide to numerical insignificance in the National Assembly, the parties have turned inward on themselves instead of ganging up on the Gaullists. Split over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself...
...moment. That development alarms France's Centrist Party, whose leaders feel that the opposition's impotency reflects a deeper ill. As they see it, French society is losing its cohesion and direction. The Centrist publication Facts and Causes, for example, writes that "in reality, the malaise is twofold." Its reasoning: "The failure of the government has caused a political crisis. But the attitude of the opposition is indicative of a crisis of civilization...