Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official added the terms of the agreement prohibit Israel from establishing any new settlements for at least five years, but do not state whether Israel can build up new settlements after that time period...
...whether it was a mistake to emphasize economic development over the years at the expense of developing sound political institutions. Maybe. I think that is true. We can easily build a factory, but how do you educate politicians? In what period of time can you educate politicians? What we are sure of now is that something was wrong. Something, somewhere, or many things, many places, were wrong. Otherwise you wouldn't have this unnatural situation where per capita income rose from $160 to $2,300 [at the same time as all the political unrest...
...Civil Aeronautics Board and President Carter. CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn fears that his policy of less regulation and more competition among airlines may be spurring a lot of panic mergers that would lead to less rather than more competition. The CAB is known to have preferred that Pan Am build up its own domestic base instead of taking over another airline's system, but the board's position is puzzling because for more than a decade the CAB and the White House have thwarted efforts by Pan Am to pick up domestic routes. Nonetheless, Pan Am professes confidence...
...five-year course, the company plans to expand the program over the next two years. Other Ford achievements: a desegregated sports program, in which the races mix easily in soccer games and in company recreation rooms, and a home-loan plan that has enabled 212 nonwhite employees to build their own houses...
...drawing what he could not build. Piranesi was perhaps subconsciously ex pressing a spirit caged by infinite space. In an age when reason and the romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker