Word: closings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a decade, Ted Kennedy has sat beneath these pictures waiting, reluctantly, for the time to try for his full share of that heritage. Now he has finally moved so close to the long-awaited campaign that his conversation is that of a candidate, not of a politician still considering, as he vows he is, whether...
...says he is not impressed with the polls. He has seen leads evaporate in days and he can recite the numbers: "Carter was ahead of Ford by 32 points after the convention in 1976 and that was a close election. Nixon was ahead of John Kennedy by twelve points. It will be a hotly contested challenge...
Because of the prompt evacuation, the death toll was low: only nine people were known to have died. But many survivors had hair-raising close calls. Ervin Nordmann rushed ahead of the storm to board up his beach house at Gulf Shores, only to be forced to spend the night there when his car would not start. After the howling winds moved on, Nordmann discovered that his house was one of only three still standing out of the 40 that once lined the beach...
...Haifa summit meeting with Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat took aside his close Mend Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and asked him to "look after Begin." The Israeli Premier's health is indeed precarious: now 66, he has survived a heart attack, and is still recovering from a mild stroke he suffered last July, Worries over Begin's well-being could be an important factor in Sadat's determination to move forward on the peace agreement with Israel as soon as possible. His health is also a matter of increasing concern to Israelis, who wonder how long...
Jensen's findings clearly have horrendous implications. Indeed, they come close to saying that blacks are a natural and permanent underclass-an idea so shocking that the book is likely to spark the most explosive debate yet over race and IQ. While his critics will not have their shots until his book is published, their job, according to Jensen, is simple enough: disprove the evidence or learn to live with it. But he is confident that his evidence will stand. "I think I have shown that the black-white differences are real, not artifacts of the test system...