Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the 20-foot-high prank to its logical extreme. Raise over $30 million. Build a model of a Polaroid camera out of concrete and glass. Build it a hundred feet high. Pack it with elaborate devices and arcane knowledge and wisemen. Drop it on the campus of a large, prestigious university. If the smaller blow-up was funny, this must be hilarious. It would be Harvard's Science Center...
...lost the election despite those ballots, I would let any possibility of a new election drop. But if I won it, I would want to run again. I feel that is fair," he said...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told a Senate subcommittee that the Administration was adopting an unprecedented policy. It was recommending a reduction in the budget for foreign aid to three nations because of their repressive policies: Argentina (credits cut from a planned $48.4 million to $15 million), Uruguay (a drop of $2.5 million) and Ethiopia (the loss of its entire allotment of $11.7 million in military help). At the same time, Vance acknowledged that aid would continue undiminished to South Korea, a country notably intolerant of dissent. South Korea would get aid, said Vance, because it was strategically important...
...fuel oil companies, unpaid accounts are running from 17% above normal for larger dealers up to a ruinous 38% for small operators. Since October, 26 dealers have been forced to go out of business because their cash flow dried up; another 175 are expected to drop out before the end of winter...
...Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow-but federal weather experts warned of ominous signs that the blocking pressure "high" might be reforming. It was also clear that the accumulated moisture was but a drop in the bucket of water needed to prevent massive crop failures, hydroelectric power shortages, widespread economic losses, and mounting tensions over water allocations this summer and fall...