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Word: mering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongly support the California law providing that students who speak little or no English should receive bilingual education if their parents want them to. Last year only half of the 120,000 students in Los Angeles schools who were eligible for that help were getting it. One reason: a mere 5.5% of the city's 30,000 public school teachers are Hispanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LOS ANGELES | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...militiamen, who receive guns and training from Israel. Moreover, the Lebanese fighting has forced Assad to redeploy many of his best troops from Syria's border with Israel along the Golan Heights. Only one Syrian armored division now stands between the massive Israeli war machine and Damascus, a mere 40 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Blasting of Beirut | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...countercurrent of refugees is a mere trickle compared with the tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who have resettled in various parts of the country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Turning the Tide Of Refugees | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...first a post-mortem study yielded no poison. But what doctors did find under Markov's skin was a tiny platinum-iridium pellet, 1.7 mm in diameter, with two holes, each a mere .4 mm wide, drilled in at right angles. The holes could have contained a toxic substance, either bacterial or chemical?quite possibly not traceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Poisonous Umbrella | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...most promising. Three rafts (see diagram) are hinged together by cylinders containing pistons; the flexing of the hinges in the waves forces the pistons to pump water, turning turbines that produce electricity. A small prototype string of rafts in the English Channel now produces a mere 1 kw., but its designer, Sir Christopher Cockerell, who also invented the Hovercraft, says that a cluster of 300 larger rafts could generate as much energy as a big conventional power station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Waking Up to Wave Power | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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