Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Global Watch. The scientists underlined Blumer's hard-hitting report, and scores of others, by recommending an immediate international survey to measure the extent and degree of marine pollution. They also urged establishment of a global monitoring system...
...about the longevity of the modern female; great-grandfather cards, by contrast, are less easy to find. Ethnic cards with black, brown or yellow Santas testify to the fact that the American melting pot is still bubbling, despite gloomy assertions to the contrary. Some cards even display the extent to which the celebration of Jesus' birth has become a festival for non-Christians. One this year contains a poem called 'Twas the Night Before Chanukah, which ends with a jolly fat man in "a little red yamalke" urging his reindeer into the night...
...Europeans as "Colonies" of Portugal. Portugal is a very poor country with few natural resources. She is able to export very little. In order to maintain an economic position above bankruptcy, she must depend upon external aid for support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supports her to a large extent (especially military) but she receives the bulk of her support from Africa. By stealing the resources of these countries, maintaining political control over them and preventing any semblance of freedom to exist in the lives of the people, Portugal has kept some respect as a European nation. With the onset...
...Your piece on Martha Mitchell [Nov. 30] was quite amusing, but you failed to spell out one thing. What happens when the size of the mouth exceeds that of the brain to such an extent that one completely overpowers the other? I would say it's idiocy over intellect by a wide margin, which is precisely what is happening in Washington today...
Once the spiral starts, it develops a self-accelerating momentum. Union members, dismayed by the extent to which inflation eats away their pay gains, clamor for ever fatter wage increases. Businessmen borrow with abandon to build bigger inventories and more factories than they need, figuring that everything will cost more tomorrow. When this "inflationary psychology" takes hold, only drastic action can break...