Word: booklet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick look at the Fields of Concentration booklet seems to lend credence to this interpretation. Although History and Literature and Social Studies now have almost exactly the same number of concentrators, Social Studies has the equivalent of only 6.90 full-time teaching fellows while History...
...just three days before President Reagan announced his decisions on the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. Naturally, there was suspicion that the timing was designed to help the Pentagon justify the vast sums needed for the new strategic systems. Weinberger flatly denied the charge. Plans for the booklet, he said, began last April after the U.S. presentation of a top-secret "threat assessment" of Soviet military strength to NATO defense ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition in their own countries...
...beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office has already run off 36,000 booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public at $6.50 each), and there are plans to translate the booklet into five languages (German, French, Japanese, Italian and Spanish). The study, however, received a negative review from at least one interested reader. TASS, the Soviet news agency...
...revolution cannot succeed. Even the most privileged Black can never forget that he is a third-class citizen. Every Black must live in one of the Blacks-only areas, all of which are miserable. Every Black must carry at all times a dark blue pass book. Unless this little booklet bears a stamp authorizing the holder to remain in white South Africa, he or she faces imprisonment or deportation to one of the so-called homelands, regions comprising the poorest and most overcrowded land in South Africa. These homelands, some which have been granted nominal independence, offer few jobs...
...council decided to print the disarmament booklet last spring, after local and state civil defense authorities proposed distributing the federal government's civil defense guidelines. That plan required Cambridge citizens to travel more than 100 miles to Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack...