Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tactics of grief worked, and she became the world's first female Prime Minister, serving for five years before she was defeated by conservative Dudley Senanayake. Last week, after a completely dry-eyed campaign, Mrs. Bandaranaike returned to power in a runaway victory that gave her Communist-backed Sri Lanka Freedom Party 96 of Parliament's 157 seats...
...According to a recent study under the aegis of the American Council on Education, a prime source of campus tension is that "adolescence is prolonged beyond all reasonable limits." Many college students feel "socially obsolescent," the report suggests, because they are "kept too long in a state of dependence when what they most need is opportunity to feel socially and personally useful...
...among the world's most sports-minded people, they seem oddly unconcerned about their wildlife. In the 1930s, government machine-gunners cut down 20,000 ostrichlike emus in a single sweep. Thousands of rare giant green sea turtles have also lately been killed for their oil, a prime ingredient of some skin creams. What Australians are doing to the kangaroo, the country's unofficial symbol, was recently summed up by an outback sheep farmer who bragged: "On my spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots...
...should anyone care about the land mollusk, or even the Southern bald eagle? Because, as ecologists keep repeating, all species are interrelated in the biological pyramid. Destroying one can adversely affect many others. A prime example is Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is being eaten away by starfish. Some scientists speculate that the ecological balance was upset when man began to remove their natural predators...
...Fitzgerald reported that an Air Force officer who raised questions about the cost of C-5A "was found to have unique qualifications to be the air attaché in Addis Ababa." Had the Air Force stopped C-5A production after the first run of 58 planes, Lockheed Aircraft, the prime contractor, would have taken a substantial loss. But a year after the cost mess had been made public, the Pentagon went on to order a full 115, only one-third of which were necessary to carry out the emergency airlift mission...