Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage increases of upwards of 10%, the addition of a few percent seemed hardly likely to plunge the country into drastic inflation. The real problem of preventing inflation was the problem of increasing production and any price change not too abrupt was hardly likely to interfere with the process. Avoiding strikes would help the process...
Reason & Unreason. Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...
...believe," says Van Paassen. "that it is now possible to impose the human will upon the cosmic process. I believe that the Kingdom of God. as a concrete politico-social state of affairs, can now become a reality because we have no choice but that or be annihilated...
...clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
...organized these wretched bands into an effective organization, sharing with them their raw, uncomfortable, dangerous life and breathless escapes, leading them on hazardous sabotage expeditions until, by the time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets...