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Word: allowances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canada Bill Jones' Motto and Supplement. It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement: A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.−Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Our Beasts and Burdens | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...government's help in arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow six C-131 planes and five HH-53 helicopters to be flown to the NATO air base at Incirli, Turkey, some 850 miles from Tehran. These would be used if the entire community of Americans in Iran had to be withdrawn on very short notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Turkey has a functioning parliamentary democracy that provides a valuable safety valve for venting popular discontent. The people can vote out a regime that they do not like. Says Orhan Kologlu, a spokesman for Premier Bulent Ecevit: "There is no need for a revolution to allow the people to express their feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Sick Man Suffers a Relapse | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Scientology's Way: Linking Soul and Science | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...wires to two tin cans held in the hands of the student. The auditor sits facing the student and the dials of the console, and asks the student to consider certain questions. The student's reaction to these questions register on the dial of the E-meter and allow "a trained counselor to determine if a person feels bad in a certain area," Velona said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Scientology's Way: Linking Soul and Science | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

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