Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modest Goal. The governments of South Asia have responded with a host of emergency programs. Pakistani officials are importing $35 million worth of insecticides and spraying equipment from the U.S. Authorities in Sri Lanka are trying to crack down on illegal gem miners, who contribute to the malaria problem by digging pits which then fill with water in which mosquitoes breed...
...Master Mind so popular? Despite the complexity of some of the advanced versions of the game, says Gene Lewallen, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, "it's easy to understand the rules, and it's not long and drawn out like chess [average time to crack the code: 15 minutes]." Lis Nygaard, a television producer from Toronto, plays Master Mind on planes. She became a fan because, "You can break the ice with people. You get to know a lot about them: how they think, even what colors they like...
...with nearly 57% of the 6.5 million votes cast and won a surprisingly high one-fourth of the Democratic vote. Declaring that "there are simple answers," he took office in 1967 with a promise to reduce state spending by 10%, cut welfare, curtail the growth of state government and crack down on student protesters. He turned out to be more pragmatic than his rhetoric suggested, in part because he had to compromise with a Democratic legislature. He managed to limit, but not reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts of vetoing 194 items of legislation that would have cost...
...after the Vikings have lost in the Super Bowl. Three times in the past five years, the Vikings have bulled their way into the big game, and each time they have gone home losers. This year they are driving through the softest part of their schedule toward one more crack at the title. Undefeated in eight games, the Vikings may have their best chance yet to live down their reputation as "the world's most famous second-best team...
...term "Harvard College" is not so easy to crack, however. Steiner believes a possibility may lie in the restructuring of certain institutions following the Strauch Report--especially in the merger of the undergraduate admissions offices...