Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford did that. "The original mistake was mine," he said. "I did not express myself clearly; I admit it." The President also promised to sign a veterans' bill, sought by Polish Americans for 30 years, that would grant medical benefits to Poles and Czechs now living in America who fought under the Allied command in World Wars I and II. Wasting no time, Ford put his signature on the bill in a Rose Garden ceremony, while cameras rolled and ethnic representatives beamed...
...scarcely surprising that the political clout of such big and powerful unions as the Teamsters and the United Mine Workers is often headline matter. But in recent weeks the unions that have been making the most news are neither large nor well known. They are a handful of obscure maritime organizations whose names and numbers are hardly impressive: the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, or MEBA (9,500 members), the Seafarers International (12,000), the National Maritime Union (45,000) and the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots...
Eyeball to eyeball, Dino blinked briefly by proposing that he join forces with Universal to make the picture. "But they want their script. She is just a remake of Kong, set in the 1930s. I say, 'No, we gotta do the picture in modern day only. I do mine, you go to court.' " They did and eventually settled for a tidy 11% of De Laurentiis' take...
Although the terrain is ideal for armor, the Chinese are sticking to a "people's war" defense, concentrating on guerrilla tactics and mine warfare. "We will not attack first, but if the Soviet revisionists dare to attack us, we will certainly bury them in the vast ocean of a people's war," declared Hsieh Kao-chung, chairman of the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture revolutionary committee...
...otherwise "good citizens": fire men, policemen, Chicago transit workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy, the 'get mine' attitude can spread. It can destroy the moral fiber of a community...