Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surveillance planes, each able to track 250 enemy aircraft up to 300 miles away. In addition, Israel's pilots are among the best in the world. No fighter pilots have more intensive training-in ground practice with computerized simulators, in mock air battles against captured MiGs and in actual combat. If the Israeli claims that they destroyed 79 Syrian aircraft in last week's battles while losing only one themselves are to be believed, the training has paid...
...week, when the second round of the Reagan Administration personal income tax reductions goes into effect. The cut trims the federal withholding bite by another 10% on top of the 5% reduction of last October, pumping an additional $39 billion into the depressed economy. To millions of Americans, though, actual buying power after July 1 may turn out to be only microscopically greater than before...
...blacks who came to the South Bronx from Jacksonville, Florida, and Americus, Georgia, and the Puerto Ricans from San Pedro and Santurce and Salinas and Ponce. There is not even official recognition that these new immigrants accomplished something that nobody else could do: turn the United States into two actual nations, one country of about one hundred ninety-five million whites and the other . . . of about sixty-five million...
...Revolution was that it massacred Yet Mao's greatest error was his encouragement of China's population explosion. In three decades of Communist rule, the population has nearly doubled. This increase of 450 million equals the population of the U.S. and Western Europe. As a result, the actual strides in industry, agriculture and public health have been undermined by the great leap forward in births...
...says the practical suggestions that caused such controversy--like using SAT scores and high school records to determine which students are "likely" to finish college and thus qualify for aid--were only "meant to generate discussion" and not intended as actual proposals. But his perception of education as a benefit primarily to society, rather than the student, drew the most violent objection from the CSA. Its letter criticizes Bok for failing "to stress the importance of maintaining equal educational access for all students" and accuses him of valuing education not "for its own sake, but because a diploma may make...