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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident of 1975 had the National Security Council been called to a nighttime meeting so hastily convoked at the White House. By 8 p.m. last Thursday, the first of the dark limousines and Government sedans of Jimmy Carter's top security aides began rolling through the gates to let off their passengers at the West Wing entrance. When the summons had gone out from Carter, the officials were scattered across the capital. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed off before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Search for a Way Out | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

That was in January 1978. By June 1979, MATEP decided to take another tack. Since the first ruling was unfavorable, it decided to submit a proposal of its own, asking the DEQE to let the diesels be installed, but the DEQE said...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Do the MATEP | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard and MATEP can literally not afford to let the project die. And until the diesels go in, no one will really know just how hazardous MATEP will be. The community says Harvard should have done its planning earlier; Harvard says the evidence is on its side. The DEQE commissioner, meanwhile, is damned if he says yes and damned if he says no. Either way, it looks like one group will take the other to court--and the MATEP saga will drone endlessly...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Do the MATEP | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...high school Bromberg studied chess three hours a week, played chess for five hours and spent one weekend every two or three months at tournaments. He added he placed fifth in the National High School Chess Championship. Bromberg said he has let his chess-playing drop in college. "You grow up," he said. "I don't think too much time should be devoted to a game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Master Takes On All Comers And Defeats Seven of 15 Opponents | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...business, delcaring an offer to join ranks with a large group of colleges that didn't like the regulations. The University, officials said, already meets Title IX requirements. The new proposals "don't really affect us," says Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs. So Harvard let the Ivy League do its talking, signing a letter to HEW that asked for "flexibility...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

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