Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) voted Monday to move its 1979 annual convention from Chicago to Houston because Illinois has not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Carol Rogers, public information officer for the AAAS, said yesterday...
...board also voted to "support the aims of the ERA" and reaffirmed an earlier decision to hold future meetings only in those states that have ratified the amendment...
Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
During the early days of automotion, battery-powered cars were the rage: in 1900, fully a third of the autos in New York City, Boston and Chicago ran on electricity. Now, in the era of the oil crisis, the electric auto has started to return, on drawing boards and occasionally on the road, moving slowly but polluting not at all. The Postal Service operates 380 electric Jeeps, and at least ten U.S. firms produce electrics for adventuresome customers. But electric cars are a long way from mass production. Who wants a car that cannot...
...retirement of Coach Heinsohn in midseason. Says Celtic Vice President Jeff Cohen: "The players weren't listening to Heinsohn. You can't make them listen. If a player has three years to go on his contract, you aren't going to fire him. We are in a new era now. But the question is whether the players are killing the goose that laid the golden...