Word: ma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ma Bell's slip shows in a San Antonio courtroom...
...Marines have ordered 350 more Harriers, but privately some officers say the crashes may result in the phasing out of all Harriers, which are designed for backing up typical Marine-style assaults on beachheads. Says one pilot: "The Ma rine Corps is trying to keep the Harrier funded. But it's hard to get money when your planes keep plunking in the ocean...
Kaddum. Ofra. Ma'ale Adumim...
Strip. Total population of the settlements: about 60,000. But Kaddum (newly renamed Alon Moreh), Ofra and Ma'ale Adumim have had a special -and somewhat awkward-status since their founding. They were built not as part of the Labor government's plan to provide for the security of Israel's borders but by a zealous organization called Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful). It believes that Jews have the right to settle in any part of the West Bank, since this land was included in ancient Judea and Samaria...
During the past few weeks, though, with a stack of important bills before the 263-member National Assembly, Soares' vote-shopping gambit has run into trouble. As one diplomatic observer put it: "The Socialists got a clear signal that a minority government is not a ma jority government." Adeline Amaro da Costa, deputy leader of the Social Democratic Center party, was more succinct. "We were giving our parties to the government," he said. "It was a kind of floating coalition, in which we submitted to something like alternate adultery...