Word: empting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received two bomb threats," said a beleaguered employee at WPIX, the station that airs Star Trek reruns in New York. "The reaction to the show is absolutely wild." Three thousand miles away, an official at KCOP in Los Angeles said, "When the program is on schedule and we pre-empt it for a special, that's really when the fans come out of the woodwork. We receive maybe several hundred letters a week...
WASHINGTON. Construction of suburban condominiums is spurring the city's strongest building surge since 1954. Condominiums are bidding to pre-empt the market in the $25,000-to-$35,000 price range, and are appealing increasingly to would-be private-home buyers in the $50,000 range...
...NOTE: Coverage of the flight of Apollo 16 may pre-empt some programs...
...NOTE: Coverage of Nixon's China trip may pre-empt some programs...
...fourth voyage in search of that elusive passage to the East Indies. Later expeditions established Spain's claim to them. Because there is no water on the islands, they were usually bypassed. In 1856, however, the U.S. passed the Guano Islands Act, which enabled it to pre-empt any unclaimed islands on which bird droppings or guano abounded. Under that proviso, Washington claimed Great and Little Swan...