Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essence, what Woody Allen is saying in Manhattan is that our mental diets consist very largely of cultural junk food. We eat it up eagerly, because we are under the misapprehension that it is actually health food. The harm it does is hidden from us for years, like that of environmental carcinogens. We do not connect the workings of these intellectual pollutants with those strange buzzings in our brains?that erratically sounding, endlessly distracting static that prevents contemporary men and women from hearing one another's voices clearly, and therefore from making the connections they desperately need. The deftness with...
...energy system, which will provide most of the hot water needs for two dormitories housing 720 students, will consist of 320 ground-mounted solar collectors, making it one of the largest in the country...
...Washington's eyes. How that attitude will be reflected at Camp David is not clear, although State Department officials went out of their way to indicate that the talks would not be "a make-or-break effort." The first stage, lasting from three to five days, will consist of discussions among Vance, Dayan and Khalil. Neither the Israelis nor the Egyptians will have authority to make final decisions on the language of the treaty. If Begin's Cabinet is satisfied by Dayan's report on the first round of talks, it will authorize Dayan to return...
...Mime's Eye, one of very few student shows that consist entirely of original work, brings to the Harvard stage some excellent mime by Grumbach and his cast, as well as some new work from a recognized young composer. It is an ambitious project and a provocative evening of theater...
Negotiating sessions generally consist of a morning meeting from 9 until noon, a break for lunch, then an hour or two in the afternoon; each session opens with a pot of steaming green tea. All are conducted in English, through an interpreter supplied by the Chinese. (Japanese businessmen complain that they face a greater language barrier than Americans, since many more Chinese speak English than Japanese.) Nonetheless, it is wise for Americans to bring their own interpreter, if they can find one skilled in both the Chinese language and U.S. business terms. Misunderstandings do occur; once some Boeing negotiators, slipping...