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Word: extract (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into a nightmarish omnibus bill by the Senate Finance Committee. The measure also includes a politically popular increase in Social Security benefits and elements of the President's welfare-reforming Family Assistance Plan. Unless the Senators somehow find a way to extract the trade measure, the entire package is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate: Chaos At the Deadline | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Each year, 50,000 U.S. infants die soon after birth-at least 25,000 of them from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Also called hyaline membrane disease, RDS is caused by the inability of an infant's lungs to extract oxygen from the air and pass carbon dioxide out of the body. Even when such babies (most of them premature) survive, they may suffer permanent brain damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Head Start for Survival | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...Extract from the posthumous papers of John H. Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Adventure of the Misplaced Pastiche | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...state government agencies on behalf of their indigent clients. At issue are legal rights to everything from welfare to public housing and health care. Such zeal prompted a regional OEO director's unsuccessful attempts to hold up funds for Chicago's Legal Services program until he could extract a promise not to sue the city. In addition, some Legal Services firebrands have alienated conservative elements in their communities of militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Politics and Poverty | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...under Sams' orders, Rackley was brought to the basement of the apartment and tied to a chair by McLucas. Sams ordered Lonnie to boil water. He then ordered that a tape recording be made while he beat Rackley and poured boiling water over him, ostensibly in an attempt to extract information from him. After approximately an hour Rackley, badly burned, was brought upstairs where he remained tied and intermittently under guard, according to Sams' orders, until early Wednesday morning...

Author: By Pam Matz, | Title: Panthers on Trial: The Case of Connecticut Versus the New Haven 9 | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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