Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feared the Guyanese army would retaliate.] So you be kind to the children and be kind to seniors, and take the potion like they used to take in ancient Greece, and step over quietly, because we are not committing suicide−it's a revolutionary act...
...show that no one had coerced the members of the Peoples Temple colony in Guyana into killing themselves. On the contrary, contended Michael Prokes, 32, who had been one of Jim Jones's top aides, the tape would prove that "they chose to die because it was an act of courage and a commitment to their beliefs...
Recent efforts to reorganize foreign aid have fared much BY GEOFFREY MOSS worse than attempts to increase appropriations for it. Senator Hubert Humphrey's last legislative initiative was the International Development Cooperation Act, which would have assembled all foreign aid programs, for the first time, under one roof and a single planning command. The bill died last year as a result of congressional inaction that was abetted by both of the major Administration departments that would have lost power. The State Department would have forfeited control of bilateral pro grams handled by AID, and the Treasury Department would have...
...found the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for 77% of all the added costs, while the much criticized Occupational Safety and Health Administration accounted for only 7%. Requirements imposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were responsible for 8%, the Department of Energy for 5%, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act for 2% and the Federal Trade Commission...
...retsina tastes, sharp and rich, Zombanakis argues that the U.S. must strengthen the dollar for many reasons, not least so Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC countries will continue to sell their oil for dollars To do that, he says, "Washington must realize that the dollar can no longer act as the sole reserve currency in the world. The dependence of the world on the dollar is not a blessing but a curse for America...