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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they discovered that they had independently scheduled May Day speeches in Chicago and New York City, the two top policymakers seized on the chance to get together. They conferred by phone, and each read and approved the other's draft. The result: the most comprehensive outline to date of the principles guiding U.S. foreign policy...
...quite a price. The growing warfare has caused Botswana to create its own 2,000-man defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month the Rhodesians carried out a commando raid 45 miles...
...almost instantly, and possibly as high as 50,000. The latter reading may be erroneous-possibly due to a "hot" particle on one device. By the NRC's reckoning, almost all the core's fuel elements are damaged, and even more radioactive material is exposed. New target date for entering the building: at least a year from...
...customary to place the date for the beginnings of modern medicine somewhere in the mid-1930s, with the entry of sulfonamides and penicillin into the pharmacopoeia, and it is usual to ascribe to these events the force of a revolution in medical practice. This is what things seemed like at the time. Therapy had been discovered for great numbers of patients whose illnesses had previously been untreatable. Cures were now available. As we saw it then, it seemed a totally new world. Doctors could now cure disease, and this was astonishing, most of all to doctors themselves...
...coins, some of which date back nearly 2500 years, are part of a collection valued at between $2 and $13 million that the Fogg used for teaching purposes, Delahunt said. "The coins are almost impossible to appraise because many are extremely rare," he added...