Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through individuals and groups, who, White says, "actually adopt a prisoner as a long-term affair." Before Amnesty will sponsor a prisoner, the London headquarters investigates his case to verify that it is political, often sending observers to open trials. "We don't want criminals," White stresses. Amnesty groups consist of fifteen people who "adopt" three prisoners from different countries. Individuals usually "adopt" a single prisoner. In addition to the $5 per year dues required from every individual, groups are also expected to raise another $400 annually through functions like bake sales. Amnesty also conducts direct mailing campaigns to generate...
...Firm Evidence. On the more mundane penny and pound level, the pro and con arguments seem to consist, as Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Reginald Maudling put it, "of diametrically opposed conclusions drawn from the same inadequate facts." Pro-Marketeers, rather indifferently led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, himself a convert to that position, argue that continued membership will lead to more jobs and lower food prices for Britons. Anti-Marketeers on both far right and far left say that it will lead to fewer jobs and higher food prices. And an exhaustive study by the National Institute for Economic...
...stopped picture-taking of troops and street scenes, arresting and later releasing an offending Japanese cameraman, and has reduced its own news flow to a minimum. Only Giai Phong (Liberation), the P.R.G.'s daily newspaper, carries press reports, but they are usually three or four days old and consist of official statements and orders. In exasperation, a delegation of Western reporters, representing 120 correspondents from 13 countries, last week sent a letter of protest over the difficulties in gathering and transmitting news, photo and television film to the outside world and asked for permission to send out their...
...most Boston public schools conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized courses that will attract students from other neighborhoods...
...spokesman for MIT President Jerome Wiesner said yesterday the membership of the new committee will be announced soon, and that the committee will probably consist of seven faculty members and two students...