Word: gloves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month of testimony, SALT II's chances in the Senate seemed perceptibly brighter. The accord's opponents have mostly failed to dent the Carter Administration's key argument that this agreement is better than no agreement. Exclaimed a White House aide: "No one laid a glove on the treaty itself...
...worldwide array of NORAD'S space-tracking stations, using infra-red detection devices as well as radar, is so discerning that it can track an object even smaller than a basketball at a range of 20,000 miles. Even an astronaut's glove is being tracked. Beyond Skylab, the heaviest object aloft is now Salyut 6, the Soviets' manned spacecraft. Every month about 40 man-made objects re-enter the atmosphere, but only a fourth survive to strike the earth. There has never been a reported injury, although the fall of Cosmos 954 over northern Canada in January...
...trade unions, a potential source of trouble for any Tory government, especially this one, were given immediate attention, with a velvet glove. Last week 370,000 teachers continued their disruptive slowdown, postal workers threatened a possible walkout, and power workers were voting by mail on whether or not to accept a 9% pay offer already approved by their union bosses; a rejection could mean an early showdown with the government. Despite Thatcher's tough stand on the abuses of union power, her moderate Employment Secretary, James Prior, quickly convened back-to-back meetings with leaders of both labor...
...many disillusioned students, revolution has replaced one tyranny with another. A junior at the University of Southern California, Said Djabbari, 21, wanted to go back but now has misgivings. "The previous government wielded an iron fist in a velvet glove," he says. "This new regime doesn't give a damn about the glove." Adds a social science student at the University of Kansas: "The Ayatullah sounds exactly like the Shah. Previously, if I opposed the government, I was opposing the Shah. Now they tell me I'm opposing...
...With time running out in regulation and Boston nursing a 4-3 lead achieved when Rick Middleton stuffed a backhand under Ken Dryden's stick-glove at 16:05 of the third, Guy Lafleur showed what makes him follow in the skate-steps of Howie Morenz, Rocket Richard and Jean Beliveau. He calmly circled in his own zone, resisting the urge to panic, then flashed down right wing and played give-and-go with Jacques Lemaire...