Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meanwhile has been given the task of leading the U.N.R. in the next French elections for parliament in March of 1967. In preparation, Pompidou has skipped his usual summer with the bikini set at Saint-Tropez this year, is already skimming the country in helicopters, cigarette plastered to his lower lip, campaigning. He has his work cut out for him. Public-opinion surveys show that the Gaullists are still France's leading political party, with some 30% of the voters' support. In parliamentary elections, that could well translate into as few as 150 seats out of the National...
High Price. The attacks, said McNamara, were "aimed at the heart of the petroleum system-major storage facilities and the distribution apparatus," and should in time impose "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." The North Vietnamese will not find it easy to replace the wrecked facilities, McNamara pointed out, since "they have only a limited rebuilding capability"; the repairs call for "stocks and materials-large steel plates, for example-which are in very, very short supply in North Viet...
...workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing for the lower classes to come in here and purchase caviar [at $50 a pound]. They are the new gourmets...
Earlier models of this Gravity Gradient system used on four other satellites were successful at lower altitudes. But scientists questioned whether far out, where the earth's gravity is weak, the damping devices which kept the satellite from swinging like a pendulum in lower orbits would still be effective. G.E. experts, however, were convinced that their basic system was reliable...
...victories for its two most original recent programs, the Teacher Corps and the Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower tariff's to Eastern European nations even before it could obtain a sponsor...