Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to remember that the United State's role in the world often runs directly counter to Carter's rhetoric. The U.S. government serves certain interests regardless of human oppression and suffering--corporate interests as in South Africa, military interests as in the Philippines...
...agreement on such everyday civic responsibilities as park maintenance and refuse collection. It has also headed off some potentially explosive political problems. Last March, for example, the Irish Independence Party, a Catholic group, began pressuring to have the precolonial "Derry" reinstated as the city's official name, a move certain to have aroused widespread Protestant hostility. The council, guided by the SDLP, voted to consider the matter but to take no action, thus defusing the threat...
Whenever Meany steps down?his current term runs until 1979, when he will be 85?his successor is just about certain to be AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland, 56. Kirkland has a reputation as both an intellectual and a pragmatist. He vows that labor's political support in this fall's mid-term elections will be determined by how legislators voted on the labor-reform bill, rather than going blindly to Democrats. For example, in Illinois the AFL-CIO for the first time will aid the re-election campaign of Republican Senator Charles Percy, who voted...
According to general relativity, such violent activity as stellar collapse and the collision of certain types of black holes should release gravity waves. These waves are to the gravitational force what light and radio waves are to the electromagnetic force...
Never too big for his red hat, the patriarch always kept a confessional to hear the sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...