Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is to continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam...
Oldtime railway executives hooted when Washington Attorney Eugene Garfield bought some railroad cars and rolled out the Auto-Train a year ago. After all, everybody knows that passenger trains are unprofitable and unpopular. Who would want to pay to haul his automobile along with his family by rail from the Washington area to northern Florida? The answer is that 157,329 travelers have wanted to-so far. As the Auto-Train Corp. closed its books on its first year last week, the company's annual revenues were running around $11 million, and in the past six months after...
...lyrics. It's hard to get people to listen to our own stuff, because a bar group doesn't listen unless they've heard it on the radio. The only real way to make it is to record. But people have started asking for 'Ben and Me' and 'Long Haul', so we must be getting somewhere...
...moves up in the standings it will be just a notch or two, not a quick sprint to the top as Gambril had hoped to accomplish this season with a far larger influx of freshman talent. The fierce competition for swimming talent among the Eastern schools prevented such a haul...
Lining up ships to haul so much grain so quickly would have been difficult in any case. But the problem has been intensified because maritime unions demanded that one-third of the ships carrying wheat to the Soviet Union be U.S.-flag vessels, and Washington got Moscow to agree. President Nixon's negotiators had little choice; U.S. longshoremen might have refused to load Russia-bound wheat aboard any ships and scuttled the whole deal...