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Word: keying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, where many key figures face difficult re-election campaigns, the news of the Soviet troops came at a most sensitive political moment right in the middle of the SALT II treaty debate. SALT'S opponents immediately linked the troops and the treaty, demanding to know how the Soviets could be trusted in an arms-control agreement when they made provocative military moves in the Caribbean. And how could the U.S. claim to be able to monitor weapons development deep inside the Soviet Union when it could get caught by surprise by a Soviet combat brigade 90 miles from Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over Cuba | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...m.p.h. and more when it passed over the eastern tip of Cuba and headed straight for Florida's southeast coast. Governor Robert Graham ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas, and as many as 300,000 people headed for higher ground, including 15,000 from the Keys alone. Public buses carried senior citizens from Miami Beach to stormproof shelters, while animals at Crandon Park Zoo in Key Biscayne were trucked to safety. There were sudden shortages of candles and flashlights and other household items as thousands of Floridians jammed their local stores. At Saunders Hardware Store in Miami, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: David Was a Goliath | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Despite the danger, some Floridians greeted the storm with abandon, holding hurricane parties in Miami, Key West and other resorts. Part of the come-what-may attitude may have been a result of the complacency that civil defense' officials say has grown in the 14 years since southern Florida's last major hurricane, in 1965. In coastal Dade County, the population has increased almost 55% since then, and an estimated 80% of the 1.7 million residents have never lived through a big storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: David Was a Goliath | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Afro-Am's senior faculty and guide it in making key policy and personnel decisions over the next few years...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Executive Committee To Run Afro-Am | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Restic says a key to Harvard's success will depend on how much the team can use the shifting Multiflex...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Wouldn't It Be Nice If... | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

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