Word: almost
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...Almost the entire cut came in the form of a $5.6 billion amputation from the defense request. It first appeared that Nixon might have to settle for $1.1 billion less than he asked for in foreign aid. But late Saturday, even this appeared in doubt as the Senate rejected the $1.8 billion foreign aid money bill. The Senate action was an angry response to the House, which insisted upon granting $54.5 million to Nationalist China for jet fighters and $50 million in military aid to South Korea...
...meetings were broken off by the Chinese, whose foreign office had almost ceased to function as a result of the ravages of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. In 1966-67, Peking recalled its ambassadors from all over the world. Even now it has replaced only one in Eastern Europe-in Rumania, which has remained neutral in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. Late last year, presumably in a test of the new Nixon Administration, the Chinese agreed to a single meeting in Warsaw in February, only to cancel it abruptly after a Chinese diplomat in Holland defected...
...gallows and the gibbet were almost as commonplace as the village church, and "hanging days" were occasions for revelry. In London at the "Tyburn tree" (the present location of Marble Arch), crowds of 100,000 or more assembled to watch the festivities. Distinguished visitors to the ceremonies at Newgate prison were often invited to remain for breakfast. "And if there were no more than six or seven hanged," according to one chronicler, the guests "would return grumbling and disappointed ... After breakfast was over, the whole party adjourned to see the 'cutting down...
...this fiscal year the cost of the distressed Health Service is estimated at $4.5 billion, more than 5% of the national income. But N.H.S. has far too much to do and too little money, facilities and manpower. Almost half of the 2,500 N.H.S. hospitals in England and Wales were built before 1891. Despite a $615 million building program, many patients will continue to be hospitalized in converted 19th century workhouses for years to come...
...Beamon breaks the world long-jump record by almost two feet with a leap...