Word: highers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From its earliest beginnings, the U.S. has been a haven for refugees. But never has the country paid a higher price for this tradition than it has for allowing in the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for treatment of his gallstones and cancer. For nearly a month, 50 Americans have been held hostage in Tehran under threat of execution by the revolutionary regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who demands the Shah's return...
...American Defense Analyst Gregory Treverton of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is important to remember that deterrence is a combination of will and weaponry. Weapons do make a difference. NATO has to become more confident at a lower level of deterrence rather than at a higher level...
...allow one football team to wear blue uniforms and one to wear red, for instance. TV games, overshadowed this year, should attract more interest when Mattel Electronics introduces Intellivision, a game system with realistic, multicolored graphic displays. Learning capability can be built into small computers. The costs will be higher, but if customers will pay $40 this year, they may pay $75 next year...
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...good rule of thumb is if a school has a good cross-country team, it's bound to have a good track team," coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday. During this year's cross-country season, the New Hampshire harriers beat the Crimson in a dual meet and placed higher in the Eastern Championships...