Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept significant numbers of Vietnamese refugees-the U.S., France, Australia and Canada-should increase their quotas, and other nations must quickly be added to that unnecessarily exclusive circle. Japan, for example, has admitted exactly three Vietnamese as permanent residents and, under pressure from the U.S., is now willing to let in as many as 500. China has taken 230,000 refugees so far, but is reluctant to take more. The U.S. had hoped to encourage the Soviet Union to lean on the Vietnamese to ease up on their ethnic Chinese minority. President Carter broached the subject to Soviet President Leonid...
...futurists, who called himself the "caffeine of Europe," had such an impact in Russia that for decades afterward all advanced or difficult-looking art tended to be lumped, by officials, under the general title of "futurism"; and when Octobrist painters shouted the slogan, "In the name of our tomorrow, let us burn Raphael!" they were adopting Marinetti's febrile rhetoric against the art of the past. In those years, even Marc Chagall was the painter he would never be again: the delight in form rather than nostalgia as the stuff of poetry that pervades a work like Self-Portrait...
...restaurant to get out of the hot kitchen," says Harry Klingeman, owner of The Indian Trail restaurant in Winnetka, Ill. "They are purchasing comfort." Karl Goedereis, manager of the expensive Houston restaurant Charley's 517, has a different kind of worry. "We'll have to let people in with T shirts," he sighs. "The class of the restaurant will go down...
...resume the tediously slow job of getting the reactor back into action. One by one they withdraw control rods, watching as the reactor temperature rises. The work must proceed with agonizing care, and the morning is nearly gone before Maher says, "O.K., guys, we're taking her up. Let's shift her onto line and make money." But Janacek stops to check his students' progress. "We've got damn good safety systems," he says. "But they're only as good as the operators...
...unenthusiastic-but not disapproving-President Eisenhower. In the naive belief that U.S. involvement could be concealed, Kennedy kept telling the CIA to "reduce the noise level" of the planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down the air cover. Not even highly skeptical military chiefs, secretly relieved to let the CIA run the project, had the nerve to inform Kennedy that the operation had grown too large to hide its origins, yet remained too limited to succeed. Looking back, one CIA official told Wyden, somebody "should have said, 'Mr. President, this is going to create one hell...