Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of meeting the needs of our team," Bernal says. "We must give our athletes the opportunity to test themselves against top competition." In essence, the Crimson can't feast on the likes of Penn and Johns Hopkins all season, and then expect to switch gears for USC or Tennessee...
...going to elicit this kind of behavior. Wild as the Ayatullah seems to be, he would not dare to touch the Soviet embassy. The point is that the Soviets are in a position, and of a disposition, not to take such events lying down. The fact of the matter is, as Mr. Nixon used to say, if we want to be a pitiful, helpless giant, we're well on the way to seeming...
...about it. Because of new federal restrictions designed to protect civil rights, the FBI no longer keeps as close watch on Klan activities as it once did. Says an FBI official: "We now cannot infiltrate them just because they are standing on a street corner and shouting, no matter how violent or antisocial their rhetoric." Other observers are persuaded that Klan strength will decline only when the people who are now attracted to it get a bigger share of the South's economic boom. Until then, say Mary Joyce Carlson, a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta whose...
Because of the severe harassment from other cadets, both resigned from the corps at the end of the summer camp and are now enrolled at a private college; the young man, however, is still determined on an Army career. There the matter rested, until the inspector general began his investigation, prompted by a complaint from the male cadet...
Actually, "shale oil" is neither shale nor oil. The rock is marl, a variety of limestone laced with a solid fossil fuel called kerogen. The kerogen was deposited 40 million years ago in the form of millions of tons of vegetable matter that collected on the bottom of a mammoth freshwater lake that then covered Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. But these lake-bed accumulations were never subjected to temperatures as high as 300° F and to extreme pressures that in time created underground deposits of readily usable liquid oil and natural gas. Now man must finish nature...