Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rifles, pistols and submachine guns captured so far could equip 33 Communist battalions, as the military says. But the 126 battalions in the lower half of South Viet Nam that rely on the caches are already fully equipped. Also, most of the rifles are dated SKS models that were replaced by the AK-47 two years...
...repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States." The dissenters argue, of course, that Congressmen who voted for the resolution after a reported enemy attack on two U.S. destroyers never intended it to be a de facto declaration of war. Though Congress has also voted to equip troops under fire, the critics add, it is unfair to conclude that Congress thus approves...
...Very Guy. After flying to the scene, Hickel concluded that the leak was caused by violations of federal regulations laid down in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, which he himself had toughened in 1969. Hickel charged that Chevron had failed to equip some wells with required "chokes," which automatically shut off runaway oil; the oilmen were presumably mindful that the safety devices can become clogged with 'sand and reduce the flow of crude. The Secretary later boasted that he had found "the guy, the very guy" who had lifted the choke from one offending well. Hickel...
...More significantly, he managed to raise $800,000 by 1967, partly by leading some donors to believe that they would receive invitations to dine at the White House. Most of the money was spent on the mansion. Dormann even coaxed Manhattan's celebrity restaurant, "21," into helping to equip a lavish kitchen, ostensibly for sating presidential appetites...
...opinions of the place and nature of education in America today. Bruner's position is unabashedly technocratic and perfectly consistent throughout. All Jones can do, it seems, is react to him, and the results are often ambiguous. For instance, while he accepts Bruner's charge that education equip the young to cope with an ever more-intricate technological world, Jones is "more impressed with modern man's need to comprehend and master what is now his tool of tools-himself." His overriding concern, remember, is to have the child "imbue curricular issues with personal significance." The teacher...