Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that most of his work will center around the international nuclear proliferation problem, though the post also will involve assisting in the supervision of security arms sales transfers, weapons that are given or sold in other countries, such as airplanes and tanks...
...PENOBSCOT and Passamaquoddy suit raises several tricky issues that have long lurked in the shadows of the American historical drama, but have never really gained center stage attention. Critics of the U.S. reservation program have compared it to the South African homeland policy. As in South Africa, reservations were begun to provide the federal government with ways of simply removing Native Americans from the political mainstream. In recent years it has yielded the reservations more and more sovereignty, so that today many tribes have the power to tax, to license and to set and enforce laws for all reservation residents...
...objectives in mind. Publicly, he has stressed the need for a dramatic pitch to hold the disgruntled lower and middle classes in the conservative-to-center fold. Without a concerted "anti-collectivist" campaign, he has warned with a note of alarm over the past year, the petite bourgeoisie will give the Socialist-Communist coalition the seats in the National Assembly it needs in the 1978 elections to control government initiatives...
Before McCree's appointment to the Court of Appeals in 1969, he served on the Federal District court. He was on the initial board of the Federal Judicial Center and has served on the Committee on the Criminal Justice Act which set up the procedures for indigent defendents to receive legal counsel...
...estimated by averaging the high and the low temperature of the day and then subtracting. Vacha said the University's system is more accurate than those of the National Weather Service because its averages are based on hourly temperature readings from a monitoring station on top of the Science Center...