Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent large Air Force cargo planes to return the mounting numbers of American bodies to the East Coast (at a cost of some $3 million), the FBI moved into the case on the basis of a 1971 law making the assassination of a Congressman a federal crime. The FBI was also probing persistent reports by surviving members of the cult that Jones had decreed that if his community was destroyed, a "hit team" of other members would be dispatched to hunt down and kill any defectors who had turned against the cult, as well as any public officials considered guilty...
...battles have ended in victory. She tried and failed to persuade her boss, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, to make air bags mandatory in all new cars beginning in 1981 but had to settle for a 1982 to 1984 deadline. Claybrook later lost out even more embarrassingly in her attempt to tighten braking standards for tractor-trailers. She was testifying before a congressional committee on her opinion even as Adams was disagreeing with her at a press conference...
...shows, I don't actually see much skating. What I see is a lot of spectacle, a lot of camouflage, a lot of substitution, and very little of the real thing." What Curry wants to see is "a skater who draws a pattern of music in the air." The spectator should, he believes, "stop seeing the steps, the effort behind it all, and start seeing that it's a physical representation of the music...
...Australian films will fare in the world market is a question. The country's wild coasts and mysterious outback provide smashing settings for directors to play with, and there is an exotic quality to Australian history that makes fascinating story material. But there is an undeniable air of provincialism about many Australian films and a choice of theme often too earnestly high-minded...
That do corrupt my air, I banish...