Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land and not just to its Palestinian inhabitants. The Israelis, who claim a biblical right to settle in what they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed to proceed, 2½ hours behind schedule. Beneath a rapidly setting sun, Saad Afra, Egypt's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Israel's Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Director General of the Premier...
...Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission decided that England had violated the "free expression" guarantee of a human rights convention adopted by Britain and 17 other countries in 1953. The commission also conveniently appended to its decision the Sunday Times article censored in 1972, making it a matter of public record and thus publishable, five years after it was written and 15 years after the last Thalidomide baby was born...
Space of all kinds seems to be a matter of some concern. "We're like three people in an elevator," Terre says. "We learn to keep out of each other...
...numbers are growing so rapidly that Young and Rubicam, the ad agency, predicts that almost one of three TV households will be on cable by 1981. Says Vice President William Donnelly: "Thirty percent is the magic number that made regular TV a mass medium and that later made color matter to advertisers." After reaching that point, cable would have a potential for further fast expansion. By industry count, TV cables (made of copper wire wrapped in plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been strung past just about half of all the TV homes in the U.S. Cable...
...would seem, there isn't really anything the matter with Larry Brown, or with the Harvard baseball team. Just a little lapse, a brief bout with mediocrity that afflicts even the most talented athlete, even the most talented team...