Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin seriously hope to contain Uganda's 7 million Christians indefinitely with 800,000 Moslems? At the moment, his policy appears to be one of selective genocide, and no one is in a position to check his ruthless misuse of power...
Normally, Orland's three reservoirs contain 140,000 acre-feet of water; now they are down to 5,000 acre-feet. Instead of the usual 18 crop irrigations per season, there will only be one this year. Farms have suffered more than $3 million in losses, and farmers' incomes have been cut by one-half to two-thirds. The town's businesses, which depend on agriculture, are down 40% in sales. Twenty-seven of 58 grade AAA dairymen have sold out and left the community. If the orchards do not get sufficient water by spring, the remaining...
...black students rejected the statement at a meeting Wednesday largely because it did not contain a Lampoon apology for the material in question...
...saint." But now, whether Twain's ghost likes it or not, he is at Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust that you'd have thought I worked in a starch factory and boarded in a flour barrel." Twain might have been...
...with a $3.9 million athletics budget, is now saddled with a cumulative deficit of $450,000 and a possibility of having to use tuition income to pay the sporting bills. On many other campuses too, university presidents who once remained at a distance from athletics issues are struggling to contain repeated financial losses from sports...