Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seminars or tutorials. There are faculty members here who have presented the same series of lectures, year after year, with little or no change and no contact at all with their students, since graduate students mark all their papers and exams. Well, at least maybe they have time for "ground-breaking research...
Paradoxically, however, dedicated arms controllers have lost ground during the hearings because the price of the treaty is almost certain to be a U.S. arms buildup. This was not only Kissinger's message, but that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and others. Indeed, the main issue no longer appears to be whether SALT II will pass, although that is not yet certain; instead, it is what kind of measures will accompany the treaty to strengthen the nation's defenses and send the right signals to the Kremlin...
...Congress prepared to adjourn last week for a month's recess, all sense of urgency seemed to evaporate in the summer heat. Much to the disgust of the White House, the push to pass the President's energy bill ground to a halt...
...also has one of the most time-consuming screening procedures. A family eligible for immigration typically must wait 14 to 16 months while its members are subjected to a series of four widely separated interviews by different organizations, all covering the same ground. Refugees with communicable diseases like tuberculosis may be delayed indefinitely. By the time a refugee is on a U.S.-bound plane, says an American refugee worker in Thailand, "he or she has earned a Ph.D. in waiting...
Tenants said they were also unsure whether the repairs would be finished. The back wall is still untouched, other than the continuing crumble of bricks to the ground...