Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financing bill to forestall payless paydays for the District of Columbia government and five other agencies that were technically without funds because their appropriations had not been approved. In addition, the Senate Finance Committee cleared a bill to raise social security payments 15% across the board, bringing a little closer to action the benefit increases that the President pledged a year...
...origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they make up for it in other ways. They move closer to the floor, use it, bite into it. Europeans tend to hold themselves high and can't do the same movements...
Commenting on the appointment, Samuel H. Beer, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the state Democratic Party, the party's brain trust, said yesterday that this would probably herald "closer contact between the City's administration and the intellectual community. It is a good sign," Beer added...
Indeed, the nation has taken huge strides forward since the '30s. Franklin Roosevelt's "one-third of a nation" is now closer to one-seventh of a nation; many who are considered "ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished" by today's standards would not have been considered too badly off a generation ago. According to a Government report released by the President last week, the number of Negro families earning less than $3,000 has been halved, to 32%, in the past two decades, and fully 45% earn over $5,000 a year...
...crew of five, began the sophisticated automatic process of finding and linking up with Cosmos 188, the passive, beaconlike partner in the space pas de deux. Then, while 188 was still in its first orbit, the two spacecraft oriented their docking mechanisms toward one another. Painstakingly, 186 moved closer. Then, high over the Ascension Island area in the South Atlantic, 186 slipped its pronged nose into a docking collar mounted on 188, linking the electrical circuits of the two vehicles. For 31 hours, the two spacecraft formed a single entity and performed scientific tasks jointly. Then 186 and 188 were...