Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital as research is, victory over hunger also demands that backward countries scale new heights of social, political and economic organization. As the U.S. example shows, it takes vast amounts of capital-$30,500 per U.S. farm worker v. $19,600 for an industrial worker. Some experts figure that developing countries must invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread...
This was basically the description that Greenglass gave in his impounded testimony. Whether or not such knowledge was vital to Russian development of the bomb remains speculative. In any case, the same general principles are used in modern tactical atomic weapons, even though engineering refinements have gone drastically beyond the crude "Fat Man" version of 21 years...
...them (one with embalming fluid), and a month later disinterred the bodies. Sure enough, he reported, autopsies revealed telltale traces of the drug's components, though not of the compound itself. As a result, Gilman had Carmela's body exhumed and a four-month analysis performed on vital organs. Said Gilman: "What we found was enough to make us exhume Colonel Farber's body...
...without evidence, he is acting not as a court of law but as a censor. I decline that role." Holding that the burden of proof in obscenity cases was still fully upon the prosecutor, Judge Greene dismissed all charges because "the prosecutor failed in these cases to prove a vital element of the offenses...
...lotus' size made balance precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...