Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only has Ted Kennedy lost ground to Carter, but his once dominating position against the three Republican candidates has vanished, although he still manages to beat all three in trial heats. Kennedy barely edges Reagan, 46 to 42, and has an eleven-point advantage over Connally, 46 to 35, and a twelve-point lead over Baker...
...SHAH (Shah get out) on trees and walls and hurling stones at the U.S. embassy. A squad of 30 helmeted officers mounted on motorcycles charged a ragtag band of 100 marchers, led by part-time Radio Commentator Miguel Bernal. The police and National Guard beat the demonstrators to the ground with 18-in.-long red-and-black rubber truncheons and hauled them off to jail...
While Venezuelan air force helicopters whirred in the sky above and 5,000 soldiers patrolled on the ground below, armed motorcades wound through the clogged streets of Caracas. It was a typical Panavision entrance for the 13 oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The price-fixing cartel that had tiptoed onto the stage of international power politics a decade earlier was gathering amidst pomp, pageantry and supertight security to do what it had learned to do best: demand more money...
...being sent off to a salt mine these days, he may not be joking. He could be heading 40 km (25 miles) east of Cleveland, where an 81-ton digging machine is carving a huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000 ft.) below the ground. When excavation is completed, the cavern will be lined with synthetic rubber and filled with 10,000 tons of exceptionally pure, filtered water. Then, about two years from now, physicists will begin looking in the pool for flashes of light that could signal the decay of protons, confirm a unifying theory...
...suggesting improvements in thermostat type and location, windows, weather stripping and insulation, complete with cost estimates and anticipated savings. Randolph's audit on his own gas-heated four-bedroom home in Hillcrest, N.Y., persuaded him to begin a three-year up grading that will lay foam insulation throughout the ground floor, put nine inches of insulation in the attic, install new siding and add a solar hot-water heater. Estimated cost...