Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those readjustments come closer with every week. Last week Federal Energy Czar William Simon asked gas stations to limit sales to ten gallons per customer per visit, and announced that he would make that an order once he receives legislative authority. For the moment, drivers are free to visit a string of gas stations, buying ten gallons at each one?if they can find enough open. But Simon also asked motorists to try to get along all week on ten gallons, a quantity barely sufficient to propel the average
...breast could cause cancer (false), and 43% believed that birth control pills could lead to malignancies (unsupported by scientific evidence). When asked to estimate the number of women out of every 1,000 who develop breast cancer, more than half guessed 100 or more (the figure is closer to 50). Despite these fears, only 18% of the women performed a monthly self-examination (46% felt it would worry them unnecessarily), while close to half did not even have annual breast examinations by a physician. That significantly lessened their chances of early detection of disease, which is essential in controlling breast...
...closer to home we'd like...
...blue who patrol Harvard Yard moved a step closer to the counterparts in the Square last week when the University Police Union signed for a 5.5 per cent pay hike...
...Agassiz Station"), he reported that the comet Kohoutek had been sighted at a distance of roughly 480 million miles from earth, barely within the orbit of Jupiter. (Halley's comet, by contrast, was not found on its last approach until it was some 180 million miles closer to earth-even though astronomers knew where to look for it.) Never before had a comet been detected at such a great distance...