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121. The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities

122. Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic charac-ters, each character miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

123. In developing new facilities for the incineration of solid wastes, we must avoid the danger of shifting environmental problems from he pollution of water by landfills to the pollution of air by incinerators.

124. During Roosevelt&aposs years in office, Black Americans began voting for Democrats rather than Republi-cans in national elections, but Black support for Democrats at the state and local levels developed only after Harry Truman&aposs support of civil rights legislation.

125. The winds that howl across the Great Plains not only blow away valuable topsoil, thereby reducing the potential crop yield of a tract of land, but also damage or destroy young plants.

126. More than thirty years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can "jump," like pearls moving mysteriously from one neck-lace to another.

127. In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned to the United Nations.

128. New hardy varieties of rice show promise of pro-ducing high yields without the costly irrigation and application of commercial fertil-izer that were required by earlier high-yielding varieties.

129. In an fort to reduce their inventories, Italian vint-ners have cut prices; their wines are priced to sell, and they do.

130. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled(裁定) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century.

131. The Commerce Department announced that the economy grew during the second quarter at a 7.5 percent annual rate, while inflation eased when it might have been expected to rise.

132. According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about as many as are enrolled in the nation&aposs four-year colleges and universities.

133. Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on dending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military dense.

134. Canadian scientists have calculated that every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

135. Intar, the oldest Hispanic theater company in New York, has moved away from the Spanish classics and now draws on the works of contemporary Hispanic authors, both those who live abroad and those who live in the United States.

136. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.

137. In 1982 the median income for married-couple families with a wage-earning wife was $9,000 more than that for families in which only the husband was employed.

138. Senator Lasker has proposed legislation requiring employers to retain all older workers ind-initely or show just cause for dismissal.

139. The extraordinary diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada for over twenty years, revealed that this most bland and circumspect of men was a mystic guided in both public and private life by omens, messages received at seances, and signs from heaven.

140. Declining values for farm equipment and land, the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season, are going to force many lenders to tighten or deny credit this spring.

121. The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities

122. Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic charac-ters, each character miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

123. In developing new facilities for the incineration of solid wastes, we must avoid the danger of shifting environmental problems from he pollution of water by landfills to the pollution of air by incinerators.

124. During Roosevelt&aposs years in office, Black Americans began voting for Democrats rather than Republi-cans in national elections, but Black support for Democrats at the state and local levels developed only after Harry Truman&aposs support of civil rights legislation.

125. The winds that howl across the Great Plains not only blow away valuable topsoil, thereby reducing the potential crop yield of a tract of land, but also damage or destroy young plants.

126. More than thirty years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can "jump," like pearls moving mysteriously from one neck-lace to another.

127. In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned to the United Nations.

128. New hardy varieties of rice show promise of pro-ducing high yields without the costly irrigation and application of commercial fertil-izer that were required by earlier high-yielding varieties.

129. In an fort to reduce their inventories, Italian vint-ners have cut prices; their wines are priced to sell, and they do.

130. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled(裁定) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century.

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