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for Democrats at the state and local levels developed only after Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation. 260.
It is estimated that during the 1980’s approximately $50 billion in private
investment capital left Mexico, adding to the strain on the country’s debt-ridden economy.
261. During the 1980s it became clear that for environmentalists who sought financial aid, it was far more efficient to solicit private funds than to go to state or federal agencies.
(A) that soliciting private funds was far more efficient for environmentalists who sought financial aid 262.
During the early years of European settlement on a continent that was
viewed as “wilderness” by the newcomers, Native Americans, with their intimate knowledge of the ecology of the land, helped to rescue many Pilgrims and pioneers from hardship, or even death.
263. During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred
substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding
for instructional material, never were sold. 264.
During the first one hundred fifty years of the existence of this republic,
no one expected the press to be fair; newspapers were mostly shrill, scurrilous, and partisan.
265. During the first year after the corporate reorganization, no one
considered the management well-organized; managers were largely untrained and directionless.
266. During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent
from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933. 267.
During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed
throughout India, sketching and keeping journals that formed the basis of
news reports about the princely states they visited. 268.
During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in
tens of thousands of Americans being evicted from homes for which they
could no longer afford monthly payments. 269.
During the Renaissance, scholars were uncertain as to the location of
Troy, and by the eighteenth century many historians doubted that Troy had ever existed. 270.
Hemingway’s wives—Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha
Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh—were all strong and interesting women, very different from the often pallid women who populate his novels.
271. Eaten in the Mediterranean countries, the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, who assumed it had poisonous properties because of its relationship to deadly nightshade.
272. Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
273. Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major goal of
education reformers and many states in the 1970’s, have not significantly reduced the gap that exists between the richest and poorest districts. 274.
Egyptians are credited with having pioneered embalming methods as
long ago as 2650 B.C.
275. El Nino, the periodic abnormal warming of the sea surface off Peru, is a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine to allow the warm water that has accumulated in the western Pacific to flow back to the east.
276. Erasmus Montanus, a seventeenth-century farce written by Ludwig
Holberg, both predates and resembles Moliere’s Tartuffe and is therefore thought to be one of Moliere’s sources. 277. 278.
Europeans have long known that eating quail sometimes makes the eater ill, but only recently has it been established that the illness is caused by a toxin present in the quail’s body only under certain conditions.
Europe’s travel industry is suffering as a result of a sluggish economy, a
stretch of bad weather, and the chilling effects of persistent terrorist activity.
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279. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them.
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Even astronomers were amazed at the success of the Neptune flyby, which
produced a photograph of a previously undetected moon; this success is likely to result in increased governmental support for the hitherto neglected U.S. space program.
281. Even their most ardent champions concede that a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary before solar cells can meet the goal of providing one percent of the nation’s energy needs.
282. Even though Béla Bartók’s music has proved less popular than Igor
Stravinsky’s and less influential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it is no less important.
283. Even though its per capita food supply has hardly increased in two decades, stringent rationing and planned distribution have allowed the People’s Republic of China to ensure nutritional levels of 2,000 calories per person per day for its population. 这两个事件是同时发生的，必须要用同一个 时态
284. Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounted to less lower than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays major role in health-care inflation.
285. Even though the state has spent ten years and seven million dollars
planning a reservoir along the Ubi River, the project must be abandoned
because the river has become so heavily polluted. 286.
Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies
almost always kills its victims unless they are inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease.
287. Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial
methodological error by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the data.
288. Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in
1911, Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.
289. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is
growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business more than $100 billion a year.
290. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.
291. Factory outlet stores, operated by manufacturers, are usually located
miles from downtown and regional shopping centers in order for them not to
have direct competition with department stores in the same trading area. 292.
Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found that local
witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and suspicious of strangers. 293.
Federal incentives now encourage capital investment in commercial office buildings, even though vacancy rates in existing structures are exceptionally
high and there is no demand for new construction. 294.
Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damaged by
toxic chemicals permits compensating state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not allow claims for injury to people.
295. Federally imposed restrictions on how much they may pay small savers
have made it difficult for savings banks to compete with such unregulated investment vehicles as money market certificates.
296. Few people realize that the chance of accidental injury or death may be at
least as great in the “safety” of their own homes as in a plane or on the road. 297.
In the United States, Fifty-two percent of high school graduates go on to college, compared with thirty-five percent in Canada and fifteen percent in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany.