Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian students in the U.S. Nor could Washington realistically hope that the Khomeini-dominated regime would not resort to a campaign of reprisals against the U.S., through either an oil embargo or assaults against Americans in Iran. But last month, after the Administration learned that the Shah was seriously ill, it granted him a temporary visa to visit New York City for medical treatment...
...announcing, Kennedy made a firm but quiet plea for leadership in a frustrated, confused and divided nation: "Before the last election, we were told that Americans were honest, loving, good, decent and compassionate. Now the people are blamed for every national ill and scolded as greedy, wasteful and mired in malaise. Which is it? Did we change so much in these three years? Or is it because our present leadership does not understand that we are willing, even anxious, to be on the march again? ... The only thing that paralyzes us today is the myth that we cannot move...
...older sites, the population density is such that evacuation might not be entirely successful in the worst kinds of accidents." He refused to specify which plants he had in mind, but two possibilities are the ones at Indian Point, 36 miles north of New York City, and Zion, Ill., 41 miles north of Chicago...
...felt I had often been steered to second-rate people." Seeking the best, Pekkanen mailed out questionnaires to 500 specialists, tallied the more than 300 replies, then conducted follow-up telephone or personal interviews. The key question asked each physician: "If you or a member of your family were ill with a problem in your own specialty, whom would you go to for treatment...
...President's move to hit out at the oil company targets was especially ill-timed, since many of his energy measures seem at last to be moving through Congress. Said one Energy Department official: "I can't believe Carter's pulling this stuff. His rhetoric can't do any good, and it could do real harm." The House and Senate windfall profits tax bills will soon go to a conference committee; compromise legislation to form the Energy Mobilization Board is on the verge of being worked out; and the Senate now seems ready to approve...