Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price-in military and other aid-for the friendship of Somalia. But the Somalis and the Ethiopians are ancient enemies, and the Soviet backing of Ethiopia is sharply watched in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. When Cuban Premier Fidel Castro visited Mogadishu two months ago, he proposed that Somalia join Ethiopia and Southern Yemen in a federated state-an alliance that would have vastly strengthened Moscow's influence. Somali President Mohammed Siad Barre said no thanks, and complained bitterly about the Soviet Strela (SA-7) missiles that the Ethiopians had begun to receive from Moscow...
Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act. which permits states to bar labor contracts requiring all workers to join unions. The AFL-CIO also agreed to scratch a proposal that would have enabled unions to become exclusive bargaining agents in a workplace if a majority of employees signed membership cards. The move, in some instances, would have eliminated the need for Government-supervised elections to decide union representation...
...that much of the banal plot laid out, it perhaps hardly needs to be added that the hero (Robby Benson, who wrote the script with his father, Jerry Segal) starts out as an absurdly innocent freshman. Slowly he becomes aware of the wicked ways of the world, refuses to join in the general cynicism, and emerges from the struggle with his ideals intact and this terrific girl, who has been a big help to him through...
Turnberry will undoubtedly be associated with the name of Watson far into the future, for although it is one of the most majestic links in the British Isles, this was the first time it had ever hosted an Open. Turnberry will now join the so-called rota of courses where the Open has been held ever since the first championship was conducted in 1860 at Prestwick on the Ayeshire coast. Next year the Open will be played at St. Andrew's, where a handful of erstwhile fox hunters were already indulging in golf when St. Andrews University was founded...
...gold-worth about $556,000 in local currency. His main worry was that the wife and three children he left behind would now be persecuted. Fan expressed hope that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, on his trip to China next month, would ask Peking to let his family join him. It is unlikely that Vance will ask; it is less likely that Peking will say yes if he does...