Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also have a flavor of 19th century colonialism. On Kwajalein, 500 natives often perform jobs of equal status with those of the 3,000 Americans, but are forbidden access to the golf course, swimming pool, free movies and subsidized food available to the outsiders. For security reasons, only Americans can live on the island. Every night the natives must commute by boat three miles to Ebeye, a slum island where 7,000 people are segregated on just 73 acres...
Additional questions on the survey concerned fire safety measures, specifically whether each room had adequate access to a fire escape, and how easily the windows could open in case of an emergency...
...five million participants in the plebiscite affirmed their support for the present government "in the face of international aggression." Critics, however, were quick to point out that citizens were forced to vote, that dissidents were permitted only limited opportunities to campaign against the government, that only government officials had access to the ballots after the election, and that many voters apparently voted in support of the government out of fear that a "no" vote would lead to reprisals...
...Department of State, and in 1945 President Truman awarded him the Medal for Merit for his intelligence work during the war. Even more commendable is the fact that during his years of government service Langer was a strong advocate of the right of historians and the public to gain access to classified government records...
...millions of Chinese maidens, the objects of affection are butchers, truck drivers and doctors. The reason, according to travelers recently returned from the mainland, is that these lucky fellows possess the most potent of aphrodisiacs-the goods and services denied the majority of Chinese. Butchers have virtually unlimited access to meat that is rigorously rationed. Truckers have proved ingenious in buying merchandise where it is plentiful and selling it where it is scarce. Physicians can provide hard-to-get medicine and that precious possession, their time; doctors in state clinics are obliged to examine ten or more patients an hour...