Word: grounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...operate offensively, Saudi Arabia's F-15s would have to be equipped with multiple-ejection racks from which bombs and air-to-ground rockets could be launched. The Saudis have not asked to buy any such racks, and the U.S. has insisted that it will not sell them any. The Israelis say the racks could easily be purchased elsewhere−a view Pentagon officials dispute. In any case, if Washington ever decided that the Saudis were misusing the planes, the U.S. could cut off the supply of spare parts...
Meanwhile, two false alarms kept Italy on a kind of roller coaster of stage-managed drama. After an anonymous woman phoned a Rome newspaper that Moro had been released on a coastal road south of the city, police launched a ground and air search that lasted four hours. They found nothing. Next day, after another caller said Moro's body had been stuffed into the trunk of a car near his residence in Rome's Trionfale district, police pounced on that area. Again they came up emptyhanded...
...other cities where the magnet school concept is under consideration, most notably Chicago and Los Angeles. "Dallas isn't big enough to be a test case," said Robert Havighurst, professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago. "Chicago and Los Angeles will be the real testing ground." In Los Angeles, Diane Watson, the only black member of the school board, thought the decision would spur greater desegregation efforts. "In light of what's come out of Dallas," she said, "I think that our current plan will certainly be extended." Exulted N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Jones...
...Economist Murray Weidenbaum, an advocate of Carter's $25 billion tax cut, disagrees. Whatever reductions are enacted, he says, should take effect at the start of the Christmas-shopping season to spur retail sales and end 1978 on an upbeat note. But Miller's proposal is gaining ground...
...Faith, it would rise in three towers, across from Oral Roberts University, behind a 60-ft. statue of healing hands. Biblical numerology was big in the Lord's plans: 777 beds, to be paid for by donors in multiples of $7. Following God's instructions, Roberts broke ground for the project in the fall...