Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only on Opening Day are all of baseball's ace pitchers in action. Roger Clemens. Dwight Gooden. Danny Jackson. Dave Stewart. Only Opening Day draws the president of the United States to Baltimore to watch the hapless Orioles...
Harvard ended its round-robin action with its second 12-2 rout over Alfred State...
...archfoe: its modern combat aircraft, for example, now outnumber Pakistan's by as many as 5 to 1. China is sometimes invoked by Indian officials as the "real threat." But most analysts note that apart from maintaining its close ties with Pakistan, Beijing has taken no military or diplomatic action since the 1970s that could be construed as ! threatening by New Delhi...
Most Western analysts doubt that New Delhi has developed the capacity -- or the inclination -- to launch a sustained military action outside its immediate neighborhood. Today the territory that India most covets is purely psychological. Says a West European diplomat in New Delhi: "More than anything else, India wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be viewed as a world power. That is an end in itself...
...water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost of the pilot project. E.D.F. has committed itself to raising the remainder, partly by lobbying the state and the U.S. Forest Service, which has declared Mono Lake...