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Today, its main claim to fame is that it provided its owners, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the financial underpinnings of a far greater publishing venture, Random House.
The liberal arts need not be regarded as ends in themselves--that is, to produce artists, writers, and other practitioners--but to create well-rounded human beings who are passing familiar, if only subconsciously, with the underpinnings of their society based on the bedrock of their culture.
Having little to do with wine, but plenty to do with the historic underpinnings of this region, are the archaeological park and sublime Paleolithic rock drawings near Vila Nova de Foz Côa (8 km/5 miles south of Pocinho).
As attitudes towards fisheries continue to change, increased understanding of the ecological underpinnings should help strike a more informed balance between fisheries' conservation and production.
For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.