Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could scream every time I read about a prison riot [Dec...
...your critique on the "Student-Loan Mess" [Dec. 8], you neglected to give credit to several well-managed state student-loan programs, like the one in Ohio...
Talk about durability. And versatility. And ubiquity. The DC-3 made its maiden flight on Dec. 17, 1935. All told, Douglas Aircraft built more than 10,000 of the planes. Forty years later no fewer than 3,000 of them are still flying as far afield as Burma, Canada and some parts of the U.S. A twin-engine work horse that flew coast to coast in an unheard-of 15 hours in the late 1930s, the DC-3 was the first American aircraft to turn a profit from passengers only. It was also the first to offer heated cabins, soundproofing...
...relations had not been helped by a new tax bill that, once enacted, would force both TIME and the Reader's Digest to stop publishing separate Canadian editions. The bill would require that both magazines have an 80% difference in editorial content from their parent U.S. editions (TIME, Dec...
...said Algeria's Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, "today's event would have been an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable." He was referring to the 35-nation Paris Conference on International Economic Cooperation, the long-awaited meeting of rich nations, poor countries and oil-producing' states (TIME, Dec. 22). Its purpose: to find ways to ease the increasingly desperate plight of the world's poorest states. After three days of speeches, private talks and public pronouncements, it was far from certain, despite Bouteflika's positive words, that the irreconcilable could be reconciled and that "the North...