Word: endedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In the Senate, Administration officials were making headway in their fight to get a natural-gas compromise, the keystone of Carter's long-blocked energy program. The compromise would increase the price of most natural gas by 15% immediately, and continue raising prices until controls ended in 1985. Initially...
Next day the demonstrations began again and this time ended in fatal, fiery riots. Many marchers apparently had not yet heard the martial-law proclamation over Radio Iran or else they chose to defy it. Jaleh Square in downtown Tehran was packed with thousands of protesters. A local religious leader...
His national integrity secured, the Shah turned to the task of modernization. His achievements?often accomplished by plainly dictatorial methods and at times torture and terror?were remarkable. When the Shah came to power, Iran's illiteracy rate was 95%; today it is 50%. In the 1940s the school population...
The summit ended the next day, with bitter denunciations. When Nyerere announced that the front-line states had agreed not to arrange any further direct contacts with Smith, Nkomo angrily retorted: "Nyerere is not the final authority on what may happen in Zimbabwe. He can't tell us what...
A two-day teachers' strike in Chelmsford ended yesterday and teachers returned to the classrooms after reaching a tentative agreement with the Chelmsford School Committee.