Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kampala with their possessions packed, as Amin had ordered. They fully expected a last audience with Amin and a quick deportation. When the bulky dictator reversed himself and said they were free to return to their homes in outlying districts, the majority chose to remain in Kampala to await further news...
...administration has indicated that postponement of a final decision on the B-1 and MX programs is meant as a signal to the Soviet Union that the U.S. will await results from the upcoming SALT talks before proceeding with major new weapons systems. This approach is reminiscent of the Nixon administration's use of new weapons as "bargaining chips" in arms-control negotiations--a tactic that more often than not spurred Soviet efforts at developing similar weapons rather than mutual reductions at the negotiating table. Moreover, such bargaining chips frequently survive arms control negotiations and grow into full-fledged components...
...professor of Egyptian language and literature. It is equally puzzling that a serious study of Ge'ez literature is disregarded in this university; literally hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts of hundreds of separate religious, historical, and other literary works found in numerous libraries all over the world, await extensive scholary attention such as a university alone could provide...
After a jolting start, Dukakis has gained enough support to await 1978 confidently. He inherited a budget crisis that forced him to be responsible for the actions of his predecessor and preceding legislatures. Many spending liberals have been disillusioned by Dukakis. Although they agreed with him on many structural reforms like upgrading the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and reorganizing the Department of Community Affairs, Sisitsky, Frank and other liberal legislators have criticized Dukakis because of past disappointments as well as ideology...
Several thorny problems await her at Commerce. She will be responsible for smoothing out problems that develop when the U.S. extends the twelve-mile fishing limit to 200 miles on March 1. There is also the question of legislation to deal with the Arab boycott of U.S. firms doing business with Israel. She must manage $2 billion in current public works spending, an amount that could grow with new economic stimulus. Finally, Kreps must look after the heavily subsidized but still sickly U.S. maritime fleet...