Word: fores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third and fourth lines, however, bring essentially untested players to the fore. Junior Bill Hozack will center the third Trio with senior Phelps Swift and Mike Leckie on wings. All were letterman last year, but saw only limited action...
...seems, handled the family-hour nuisance most wisely. Its ratings have actually risen marginally, probably because its new shows are supported, sometimes fore and aft, with old favorites. The network also realized that 9 o'clock, when you rise to shoo the kids out of the living room, is the logical time to switch channels if you are ever going to. At that point ABC stands ready to present what the ratings indicate most Americans want-a quick fix of violence (five nights a week if you count N.F.L. football) or an old movie (on Friday and Sunday...
...part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon in the fore, have attacked the system as a welfare ripoff. Even liberals are disturbed by the rush to food stamps by college students and workers on strike...
...stopped over in Alaska for a brief meeting with President Nixon), but he was dissuaded from doing so by the anti-Americanism of the Japanese left and the ill-will caused in 1971 when President Richard Nixon did not consult or even inform Japan be fore announcing a new policy toward China. To help ease that tension, President Gerald Ford went to Japan last November, and now the first Japanese imperial visit to the U.S. was meticulously planned to provide both nations with a graceful and rather old-fashioned diplomatic interlude...
...social level, the ex-colony's semi-Westernization has left it with some anomalies: tribesmen clad only in "ass grass" (leaves fore and aft hanging from a bark belt) push shopping carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...