Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's various languages began when enough people in some area were able to agree that certain sounds meant roughly the same thing most of the time. It was never more magical than that. All of the complications of syntax and tense and the diagramming of sentences and the like, which have confused so many of us for so long, spring not from the origins of the language but from the efforts of scholars to figure out after the fact how it works...
...only languages that have been planned and created ahead of time are Esperanto and various imitations of it, and they are really no better at communicating thoughts than Boonville's happy Boont...
Though detergents and chemicals were used initially at Santa Barbara, by last week the practice had been abandoned. Part of the reason was that the various processes proved ineffective. But in their zeal to restore the beauty of Santa Barbara's beaches-some valued at $2,000 a front foot-crews incurred the ire of conservationists by steam-cleaning the rocks, thereby cooking marine life that had escaped...
...view of the continued buoyancy of the economy, Nixon will have to extend the 10% surcharge well beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration date and resist various pressures for costly new Government spending programs, even when the Viet Nam war finally ends. For its part, the Federal Reserve will have to avoid the stop-and-go policies that in the past have produced sharp, erratic swings in the money supply and have brought criticism from some economists. The need is to show, as George W. Mitchell, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, puts it, that "we mean...
...Federal Trade Commission is delving into the various economic implications of the conglomerate trend. Antitrust subcommittees in both the Senate and House plan probing inquiries of their own. The Justice Department is studying whether to recommend broader antitrust legislation to cope with conglomerates. Paradoxically, the trend has been fostered by Government antitrust barriers against mergers within the same field. More and more firms with little in common are getting together because it is the only legally safe way to merge...