Word: unlikelyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We took a hotel room and sat down to make some necklaces for the concert. My nerves, a bit frayed, were not helped any when the hotel's proprietess banged on our door and threatened to arrest us for overflowing the shower. Now I knew that doing one to five...
Unfortunately, the negotiations, which are being held in Geneva, have dragged on and on. Despite a Dec. 15 deadline for a final pact, many of the thorniest issues still defy solution; they include not only the subsidy question but also such matters as the ground rules for trade between developed...
One can hope, as press reports suggest the State Department still does, that Pretoria will decide of its own accord to abandon this reprehensible course. But given South Africa's past history of cynical contempt for world opinion and the current political turmoil within the Nationalist party caused by the...
Whether that or any foreseeable approach would work is unknowable. Calculating the effects of possible tax changes on business investment decisions is one of the most arcane of arts. Brookings Economist Joseph Pechman, a liberal, points out that one goal of economic policy should be to increase productivity. But, he...
Another limit is imposed by the Nobel committees' own rules, which since 1901 have provided for annual Nobel science prizes in only three fields-physics, chemistry and physiology-medicine; in 1969 a fourth prize was added in economics. In addition, there are prizes for literary accomplishment and for contributions...