Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven, South Viet Nam's armed forces along with its Regional and Popular Forces have improved enough in the past two years to equal the introduction of 190,000 more U.S. fighting...
...antiquated Twelfth Amendment (passed in 1804), the slates of electors chosen in this week's national voting will meet in their various state capitals on Dec. 16 to cast ballots for President and Vice President of the U.S. Each state has a number of electoral votes equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. Thus New York, for example, with 41 Representatives and two Senators, has 43 electoral votes. The District of Columbia lacks congressional representation but has three electoral votes by virtue of the 23rd Amendment, ratified...
...absolute. They kept right on conferring and finally produced a plan that won De Gaulle's approval. It called for joining the companies in a "common organism" that would command $2.8 billion in annual sales and be managed by Fiat and Citroën on theoretically equal terms...
...this year. John B. Fox, of OG&CP, estimates that some 275 Harvard seniors are applying to medical schools, an increase of 100 from last year. Normally, about 150 freshmen enter as pre-meds, about half have their minds changed, and drop out, but are replaced by an equal number who have the opposite change of heart. So, normally about 150 go to medical school...
...removing their helmets and performing the "Valsalva maneuver" (named for its inventor, the 18th century Italian anatomist Antonio Valsalva). Holding their noses, closing their mouths and trying vigorously to exhale through their nostrils, they forced air through their clogged Eustachian tubes to keep the pressure in their middle ears equal to the increasing cabin pressure. The tactic worked perfectly, preventing pain and possible rupture of their eardrums...