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Word: clearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also explains there is no smoking on the bus and no Interstate Commerce Commission license, so please don't tell anyone along the route you are a "paying passenger." The brochure promised that the drivers never drink or take drugs "while behind the wheel." It also made clear that passengers travel at their own risk. Bjorn is already swinging like a monkey from the luggage racks, while 8-year-old Leah, bound for North Carolina with her mother, purrs and mews to imitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hippie Bus from Coast to Coast | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...dramatic new phase in the relationship between the two giant nations, a phase symbolized last week by the signing of scientific and cultural-exchange agreements, by the prospects of greatly increased trade and of another summit conference in China later this year. Over and over, Teng made it clear that he is urgently looking for American credit and technology to modernize his backward nation. The early signs are that he will get much of what he is seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

SALT negotiations. This seemed to contradict Carter's past statements in private that the Soviets were indeed delaying SALT because of their concern over the new Sino-American relationship. Some officials suggested that Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko may have to meet to clear away the smoke from Teng's visit before the SALT talks can be completed and a date set for Carter's planned meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...invitation--which did not mention the Harvard-Radcliffe name. Student Assembly officials are all too well aware that unauthorized use the school name could result in disciplinary action against them; they are careful to follow University rules as they understand them. But, as the Boston-Boston episode makes clear, no one quite knows what rules apply in this nebulous relationship between the assembly and the University...

Author: By Marc L. Baum, | Title: A Schizophrenic Assembly | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

Some editorials made the American impression even more clear. The San Fransisco Chronicle, asking what kind of government Iran could possibly have lacking the Shah concluded that "it would be hard to convince us that any modern state as large and economically advanced as Iran could conceivably be ruled successfully or for long by the kind of fanatic priesthood that Khomeini symbolizes...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Remember The Maine? | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

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