Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet who had also served under Franco-angrily resigned as Navy Minister, telling Suarez that he could not sit in a government that had legalized Communists. There were fears that a number of other senior officers would follow him out of the government. But at a stormy 3½-hour meeting of the Superior Council of the Army, the hard-liners backed down; the officers expressed their "revulsion" at the government's action, but they agreed to accept it out of a sense of "patriotism...
...accountability in decision making. The FDA must be reorganized internally." Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Public Citizen's Health Research Group in Washington, says of the agency's initial decision to ban saccharin altogether: "The FDA wrote up its intention in one hour and 20 minutes. The furor could have been avoided if they thought of public reaction. They blew...
...wars are alike in that men, women and children are wounded, maimed or killed. But a lost war hurts the most because it pinpoints the aching futility of dying to no apparent purpose. The mood of the present hour is to forget about Viet Nam. Amnesia is the U.S. antidote for history...
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment had long counted on Florida as one of the last three states needed to ratify the amendment. But they were in for a rude shock. Last week, after an emotional four-hour session, the Florida senate voted, 21-19, to defeat the ERA. Said a stunned ERA advocate: "I hope to God it isn't over...
...length bad health forced him out of the game and then, when he recovered, it took a decade for him to buy his way back. Establishing a foothold in Chicago last year, he worked 15-hour stints day after day. Still, the Sox finished last. They also drew indifferently, and baseball's anticircus bloc began sounding elegies for Veeck. "I'd never suggested," Bill Veeck said, "that promotion by itself attracts fans. Winning draws fans. Winning plus promotion sets attendance records. Promoting with a last-place team, which is what we had to do last year, is only...