Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administrative Board met yesterday, but had not announced its decision as of late yesterday...
...isolated pockets and opened a corridor to Kolwezi airport, five miles outside of town, which had been recaptured by Zaïre troops. At week's end the rebel hold on the city was broken and a mass airlift of refugees began. For some the aid came too late. Paratroopers found clusters of bodies, and survivors told of mock trials on street corners followed by swift executions. Some Zaïre soldiers who had fallen into rebel hands had been killed the same...
Patrice was born to racing. The cherished only daughter of the late Hirsch Jacobs, who saddled more winners than any trainer in racing history, she has been a well-known figure in the sport since she was a little girl. She is as quiet and reserved as her husband is confident and outgoing. Friends say the marriage of opposites, of blood and money, has worked out very well indeed...
...weather the crisis, colleges are considering a number of innovations. Some are beginning to stress career-oriented courses and work-related programs to satisfy the more pragmatic job applicants of the late 1970s. Quite a few colleges have inaugurated rolling admissions, deciding on applications as they come in, thus enabling students to determine their fates before the dreaded 15th of April...
What has happened is an increase in hiring. Unemployment has dropped nearly two points since late 1976, to 6% last month, when 535,000 people found jobs. The 93.8 million Americans at work in April constituted 58.4% of the entire population aged 16 or over, by far the highest percentage ever; the prerecession peak was 54.7% in March...