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Word: allowances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vazquez said a woman administrator, whose name he could not recall, told him that not turning in his study card would allow him to withdraw, despite an explicit statement in the Summer School catalogue warning that "merely ceasing to attend classes does not constitute withdrawal...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Student Threatens to Sue University For Refund | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...problems have clearly piled up. But before a common will to tackle them can emerge, thus forming a consensus that would allow a leader to lead, the challenge must be perceived as a national crisis. World War II and the cold war were times of perceived

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...extent of lecturing at the University of Hanoi. But he became disillusioned with leftist politics in 1976 when some radicals and others tried, unsuccessfully, to force the Cambridge, Mass., city council to deny Harvard and M.I.T. the right to conduct recombinant DNA experiments. Ptashne helped lead the campaign to allow the experiments to take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...ever been blacklisted. Jackson said he had been turned down for a visa several times in recent years. This time he said he had turned to President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to support his visa application. Said one Pretoria government spokesman of the decision to allow him entry: " We considered we had little to lose. South Africa couldn't be worse than all things the Rev. Jackson has been saying about it all these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Noble Son | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...tours that include only five days in Moscow, usually not enough to follow an event from trials to finals. Tickets for sporting events, as well as for cultural activities be on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, though "barter booths" will be set up in hotel lobbies to allow spectators to swap unwanted tickets. There will be some agonizing choices. Faced with a 7 p.m curtain at the Bolshoi and an Olympic event it the same time-most finals are scheduled for the evening-some tourists will doubtless go home unsatisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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