Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Nehru. Gone was the stranglehold of the Indian National Congress, one of the century's great political movements and the ruling party in India for the past 30 years. Gone was the state of emergency of and the common wisdom that India was drifting ever closer to dictatorship...
...Hanoi's Chi Linh Park, amidst the tamarind, rhododendron and banyan trees, there are two man-made structures. One is a bomb shelter, constructed in the mid-'60s as U.S. air strikes crept closer to the capital. The other is a round cage with a pagoda-style roof, built in the French colonial period but maintained by the Communists; it houses two large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts...
...House. Epps's action reveals a lack of understanding of the history and purpose of these dining halls and demonstrates a general insensitivity to the position and interests of women on this campus. That such an event was permitted at the Radcliffe Quad for six years but prohibited any closer to the River exemplifies Harvard's ambivalence toward its merged-non-merged sisters...
...Charles Schultze before the committee for an unusual second appearance to argue for the Administration's $50 tax rebate. In the end, the committee voted to keep the rebate, restore the increase in the investment tax credit that the Administration wants, and report later this month a bill closer to the President's intentions than the one that passed the House earlier this month. Its main provisions...
However, she now swims a closer-to-mortal 10,000 yards a week...