Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...
...renewed Soviet pressure to bring the country back into Moscow-centered Communist orthodoxy. Yet there is one telling sign that Yugoslavs are steeling themselves for Tito's passing. His writings are being collected in a 60-volume series of works-the ultimate accolade for any figure about to join the pantheon of Marxist-Leninist saints...
...agricultural resources and technology to the world's hungry peoples in exchange for at least a modest profit. Nobody is bringing together America's farmers, processors, agronomists, international distributors, and producers of fertilizers, pesticides and machinery. The first step, he says, is for these many forces to join "to figure out ways to distribute nourishment in the world. How do you feed 30, 40 or 50 million people hi the Third World so that they can live beyond an average...
...crusade for women's sport has been helped by a number of court cases, scattered across the country, that have prodded reluctant athletic directors and league organizers into letting girls join boys' teams if there were no similar teams set up for the girls...
...full-grown chimpanzee has great strength and must be respected. Says one scientist: "If I get into an argument with Billy or Washoe or some of the other chimps, I try to change the subject." Earlier books on the subject report that some simian students are eager to join the human club. A female chimp placed a photo of herself in a pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish or Ameslan exhibits the ability to form concepts from his store of word symbols...