Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave the country with their Israeli captives-there was no choice but to try to stop the Black September gang by force. The decision not to trade off prisoners was up to Israel alone. Although the confrontation was in Germany, the hostages were Jews and the West Germans bear such a psychological burden of guilt from the past that they felt that they had to defer to Israel. Jerusalem intervened early in the decision-making with telephone calls, cables-and the dispatch of two high Israeli intelligence officers who sat in with the West German government officials from about...
...with ability to pay. The Senator's supporters argue that the progressive nature of the federal-state tax system has been undermined by federal income tax rate cuts that have benefited the rich most of all, and by great increases in sales, property and Social Security taxes, which bear most heavily on the poor. Capital gains taxes, so the argument goes, must be raised in order to redress the balance...
Sytek said he would change his position on personal appearance "if the law comes to bear...
Until someone can come up with a constructive way of disarming the underworld as well as law-abiding citizens, I will continue to utilize my right to bear arms. And God help the fool who breaks into my home...
...years a bitter debate has been raging over how to reform the operations of the nation's stock-trading business so that it can handle efficiently the diverse needs of more than 32 million investors. The need became obvious when the 1969-70 bear market forced more than a hundred brokerages into financial failure or shotgun mergers. The causes were numerous, but one overriding factor was that Wall Street was still geared to a bygone age of relatively slow trading by individual investors dealing in 100-share lots; the stock exchanges could not cope with the demands...