Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic disaster with periodic attacks on the 450-mile rail line, which brings the country's iron ore to the sea. In the north, Polisario has also shut down the vast Moroccan-controlled phosphate deposit at Bu Craa by harassing the mine and its 60-mile conveyor belt to Atlantic Ocean docks at Aaiun. The attacks, ironically, have helped Morocco's domestic phosphate industry by keeping supplies short...
...Good Soldier Chonkin belongs to an older tradition. He is the wise fool, the slow-witted peasant who mulishly plows a straight furrow through a devious world. Chonkin even looks as if he had plodded from the pages of folklore, "his field shirt hanging out over his belt, his forage cap down over his big red ears, his puttees slipping...
Washington attorney in the running for HUD and HEW . . . Age 52 . . . Born in an Illinois corn-belt town, daughter of a railroad waiter, finished No. 1 at Howard University and George Washington University Law School . . . Has 30 honorary degrees . . . Taught law at Howard...
Coleman caustically noted that under a previous chief, his department had ordered the "interlock" system (the engine would not start unless a combination lap-shoulder belt was fastened) on 1974-model autos, but that public anger against this federal fiat caused Congress to repeal the requirement for 1975 models. Coleman argued that a similar Washington mandate concerning air bags would have the same result...
Socking it Back. One of the most vocal chokers has been Paul Clement, 45, a retired truck driver who lives on a dilapidated farm in a double-size trailer with his wife and three children, including a son now in the eleventh grade. Clement organized BELT (Better Education for Less Taxes) to fight back: "They won't take no for an answer. When we vote down the budget, they sock it back to us with the same figures...