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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel to see your children starving, and have all doors slammed in your face? Isn't it time that all of us who believe in freedom and human rights stop thinking in terms of color and national boundaries? We should open our arms and hearts to those less fortunate and remember that a time could come when we might be in a similar situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Actually, police in New York suspect that Sindona may be more afraid of the charges against him in Italy, which are simpler than the 99 counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson of the NOAA: "We have never seen anything like it. There is no engineering solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pancakes and Mousse off Texas | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...having to meet the costly safety, environment and mileage standards on new cars. Miller said the former idea would amount to an "interest-free, unsecured cash advance from taxpayers' funds." Instead, he recommended Government loan guarantees that will have to be approved by Congress and will "total considerably less than $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler's Crisis Bailout | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Those assumptions are highly questionable. At present, broadly defined solar provides less than 6% of the nation's energy needs; some other studies anticipate that solar could supply no more than 10% by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: That New Energy Buzz Book | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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