Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Party tries to regulate what it does not tax. Although farm land remains in private hands, most farmers have been put under legal and financial pressure to join state-dominated cooperative marketing groups...
...pace of its economic strategy. Dar es Salaam has endorsed a World Bank study that, among other things, calls on Tanzania to 1) spend less on social services and more on industrial and farm development, 2) pay peasants more for crops to spur productivity, 3) stop forcing villagers to join the ujamaa work brigades...
...Middle East peace negotiations during the past decade. Begin's new stand would make it almost impossible for the completion of a declaration of principles that Israel and Egypt could sign; it would almost rule out any chance that Jordan's King Hussein would then join the peace process because Begin's interpretation of 242 forecloses Hussein's hope of getting back the West Bank territory he lost in 1967. If Begin does not have a quick change of mind before leaving for Washington next week, his visit with Carter may be an unsmiling...
...about patrolling and its responsibilities--watching for fallen skiers, providing first aid, packing the snow on unskied runs so they could be opened, and performing a painstaking "sweep" at day's end to make sure no one was hurt or lost on the mountain--he knew he wanted to join, too. He was 13 at the time; the minimum age for junior patrolmen...
...years later, a sophomore in high school, Jim had enough confidence in his skiing to attempt to join the patrol. "I wanted it so bad I could taste it," he said, "and I knew they would only take 15 people." After passing an endurance test, he took a written exam on first aid and ski patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder...