Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimated 90% of the population of the states is illiterate, and women remain in purdah behind grilled windows. But Gulf Aviation's frequent BAC-111 jet flights now link the wealthier states more closely than camels ever did. At the bars in the vast airport terminals, Arab entrepreneurs in long robes sip Scotch to the piped-in music of Ray Charles; porters pause during prayer hours to kneel on the floor facing Mecca...
Fast delivery is the key to his campaign. Between major distribution centers like Chicago and St. Louis the N&W runs more frequent and faster trains. For Detroit automakers, among others, the N&W has 39 special "run-through" trains that bypass many old stops, saving as much as two days' travel time...
...college's own students learn in their two-year course of study how to steer teenagers' attitudes away from "bourgeois" careerism and alleged intellectual elitism. One method is to dirty school-children's hands with frequent stints of manual labor. The young future teachers must themselves engage part-time in labor...
...each case the husband had had a vasectomy performed. In this group the operation resulted in "relatively disastrous" consequences, with worsening of old problems or development of new ones. Some of the wives began to feel that their husbands were "no longer a man." Extramarital affairs became more frequent, drinking and job troubles increased, and minor disagreements seemed less tolerable. Though the number of cases in the study is small, Staff Supervisor Shirley Southwick of the Family Service Organization of Worcester, Mass., asserts that they are not atypical: across the country, she says, marriage counselors have growing doubts that vasectomies...
Columnist Jack Anderson, Washington's most persistent sensationalist, thrives on contention. His column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, gives his audience frequent scoops, but many of his fellow newsmen regard as frivolous his uneven mixture of muckraking and kiss-and-tell gossip. Last week, however, Anderson was basking in more serious attention, after his Merry-Go-Round grabbed off something of a brass ring. In four columns, he disclosed private policy discussions of the Washington Security Action Group, composed of experts from the National Security Council, State Department and Pentagon, concerning Administration action in the India-Pakistan...