Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Belgian relief team of experts carrying 40 tons of equipment including four-wheel-drive vehicles left for Yerevan yesterday, as did an Israeli plane with a 42-person team headed by an army general...
That is a message that many Americans obviously need to heed. Although the heart-attack death rate in the U.S. has fallen roughly 3% a year since 1967, too many people are hanging on to the bad old ways. In a report last July, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned Americans that they are still consuming too much saturated fat and that their cholesterol counts are too high. A basic problem is that many Americans -- 79%, according to a Louis Harris poll published earlier this year -- do not know what their cholesterol levels should...
...worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes called by intifadeh leaders, he decided to quit his job in Israel. The $130 a month he now earns as a guard at a religious school is not nearly enough to provide even modest comfort. "Financially," says Abu Ali, as he is called, "I am tired...
After three days of intense, sometimes emotional debate, the time had come to vote. Normally, delegates in the U.N. General Assembly cast their ballots electronically, pushing buttons at their desks and watching the results -- green for yes, red for no -- wink up instantly on two display boards overlooking the hall. This time, 18 Arab countries insisted on a voice vote as well. By a draw of lots, Britain went first, and abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages...
...Bruce is a quality pitcher and will only have a positive influence on the Padres," San Diego field manager and general manager Jack McKeon said...