Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect a democratic government that was neutral, and jumped to side with Turkey when it seemed possible to lure them more into the U.S. camp and further from the Soviet Union. It held true in Vietnam and Korea, where Kissinger and Nixon chose to continue to prop up and arm dictatorships rather than risk the Communist appeal in democratic elections...
...allows ten days for memorial closedowns during the life of the pact. Thus Miller can and probably will call another five-day "memorial" walkout in the middle of bargaining, and the nation could lose considerable coal output, even without an official strike. The coal industry's bargaining arm, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, tried to talk the U.M.W. out of the shutdown, contending that it will cost miners and other employees $25 million in wages and $7 million in royalty payments to the union's welfare and retirement fund. Though the appeal failed, the figures indicate how costly...
...then the scientists had, in effect, been overruled by a bureaucratic device. FDA referred the question of cyclamate safety to the National Academy of Sciences and its working arm, the National Research Council. The prestige of these bodies gives a false aura of objectivity to their findings, says Verrett, because the NRC passes the buck to an advisory panel of "experts," most of whom are partly supported by the industry concerned or institutions that it finances. Such men, says Dr. Verrett, "are sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Hertz Rent-a-Scientists.' " (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...light will be hidden under a bushel," Ford assured his fellow Congressmen. "Every Republican will have a voice in decision making and a chance to make a name for himself." Ford gave credit where it was due, took less than his share and made friends in both parties. No arm twister, he was a patter and a hugger. "It's the damndest thing," mused Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski...
...Beatles: "Then it comes to you like total disbelief: These are them! You're seeing The Beatles, and they walk and breathe--the gods are really real! It's all the happiest emotions combined into one. Like ecstasy. I stuck my hand through the fence and touched Paul's arm. I really did. Like I feel I know them...