Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of Massachusetts Selective Service, explained that the test if it is similar to the one used for the Korean War period, would consist of 150 questions...
Food stockpiles at home have shrunk $1.3 billion (to $6.7 billion) since 1960, now consist of 818 million bu. of wheat, 55 million tons of feed grains, 7.7 million cwt. of rice, and 126 million Ibs. of dried milk. Pointing out nonetheless that domestic commodity stockpiles "must be large enough to serve as a stabilizing influence and to meet any emergency," Johnson asked Congress to authorize establishment of reserves for certain strategic commodities. Such reserves, he said, would be built up and maintained by Government purchases on the open market rather than relying on accumulation through subsidies and price-support...
...learn to coexist with science and (in Mortimer Adler's phrase) reach its delayed maturity, provided it resolutely insists on being a separate discipline dealing publicly and intelligibly in first-order questions. Caution is bound to remain. Instead of one-man systems, philosophy in the future will probably consist of a dialogue of many thinkers, each seeking to explore to the fullest one aspect of a common problem. Says Oxford's James Urmson, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan: "It is just like Galileo experimenting with little balls on inclined planes before he addressed the heavens...
...Daniel L. Shaw Jr., medical director of Wyeth Laboratories, told the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Asso ciation that reports of adverse reactions now go to the Food and Drug Administration, which compiles them in a monthly review. Relayed to press and public, review items often cause alarm. But they consist largely of unevaluated "raw data"; many of the cases, said Dr. Shaw, have not been checked to make sure whether the patient was indeed taking the drug named, or taking other drugs with it. The FDA, which cannot afford to investigate every case, keeps the names of doctors and patients confidential...
...gaudy New Boston stores and many of the old smaller ones, then just as quietly slips back through the park, leaving cries of crass commercialism to others. So familiar is her path, so unobtrusive, that you may not have noticed her. Your Christmas in Boston may consist entirely of fighting crowds at Jordan's to pick up that Christmas gift for the roommate who turned out to be not so bad after...