Word: employs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, Amin has driven Uganda to the verge of bankruptcy, mostly through an excess of military spending (reportedly $90 million last year, v. $20 million in 1968-69). Now his decision to expel the Asians, who pay a large share of the country's taxes and employ tens of thousands of Africans, will cause incalculable disruption to the nation's economy...
...practiced today, shock treatments are administered through electrodes attached to the patient's temples. A device the size of a file-card box is used to send an alternating current of about 400 milliamperes through the brain at roughly 100 volts for seven seconds (electric chairs employ a seven-ampere current at 50,000 volts). The resulting convulsion lasts less than a minute. The patient is protected by both muscle-relaxant drugs and anesthesia against one of shock treatment's early hazards: the possibility of arm or leg fractures. The patient experiences loss of recent memory when...
...cigarettes than a piece of hand luggage. The era of pocket photography is here, and it promises to make the camera a spectacularly more usable possession. If leaders of the photo industry are right, many consumers will want to carry one around nearly everywhere, having it ready to employ as a kind of visual notepad...
...maledictions of black witches. The black witches invoke power from the darker forces of nature?or Satan?and generally employ their magic for themselves, either in an attempt to acquire something or to cast a malicious spell on an enemy...
...dispute began when waitresses picketed the restaurant on Mt. Auburn St. demanding that Cronin recognize the newly founded Harvard Square Waitresses Organizing Committee (HSWOC) as the sole and inclusive bargaining agent for the waitresses in his employ...