Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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EVEN in the most tranquil of times the antiquated procedures and musty mechanisms of the U.S. Senate are barely able to cope with the basic demands stipulated in the Constitution. Last week, in a chamber filled with the grating emotions and cross purposes of determined men, the legislative machinery flew apart. "The Senate has gone out of control," scoffed a Republican leader from the more orderly House of Representatives. Conceded Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield: "We are having filibusters-and filibusters on filibusters, and filibusters within filibusters...
While the parliamentary skirmishing degenerated into a morass of confusion in which nothing seemed certain to pass, the basic issues at stake were sharply etched. In order of diminishing intensity of feeling, they came down to a classic confrontation over free trade, a sweeping reform of federal welfare programs, funding of a supersonic jet transport aircraft, and limitations on the President's power to authorize U.S. military operations in Cambodia. With only a few more scheduled working days, this is how those issues stood...
...basic "I wish" formula, Koch had the children add colors, noises, even comic-book characters...
Hallmark, American Greetings, Norcross and other card companies know precisely what they are doing. With the help of market research and psychological expertise, they have isolated no fewer than 3,000 "sending situations," that define the basic religious and emotional needs of both sender and recipient. One card, for example, is designed to calm the nervous traveler with best wishes "from takeoff till landing." Another transmits to a permanent invalid "loving thoughts of you"−tactfully avoiding the conventional "get well quick." CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW PAD, says a card for blacks, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD...
...Wisconsin molecular biologist who long espoused what his colleagues considered a major heresy. According to accepted theory, the hereditary information in the chromosomes of all cells passes in the same direction. Double-stranded DNA molecules make single-stranded messenger RNA molecules, which then direct the production of proteins, the basic building blocks of every cell. Temin contended that the process is sometimes reversed: RNA, he insisted, could make DNA. Otherwise, he asked, how could cancer-causing viruses−which consist of bundles of RNA sheathed in protein−inject their deadly message into normal cells...