Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most significant step toward the council's move came in the three-hour rent control subcommittee hearing immediately before the council meeting. The subcommittee, which includes all nine city councilors as voting members, was unable to reach a consensus on the first five stronger motions, as it split four-to-four, with one councilor absent...
...saqueros, melon-sack workers, have the hardest job and are the most militant workers. They move through the fields in a bent-over position, cut and pick melons, and load up a sack on their back. When full, it weighs 70-80 lbs. and they have to run up the planks to the truck and dump the melons. It can happen that, to keep the pace, the truck starts moving while someone is still on a plank, and he falls and injures himself...
...against Syria. Even if they were not spoiling for a fight-and Jerusalem insisted they were not-Arabs also conjectured that Israel intended to occupy Lebanon south of the Litani River to keep the Palestinians out of the area. Washington, which had no advance notice from Jerusalem of the move, was almost as alarmed as the Arabs. President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance expressed their concern to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan during his Washington visit; Dayan merely bucked the American protest to Jerusalem...
...hopelessness springs eternal on Rhode Island Sound. After three crushing defeats, Australia's loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...
...core is a forward-looking action rooted in "dissatisfaction with the status quo," Rosovsky said. He wants the College to move from general distribution requirements to "a much more specific set of goals" that would ensure that Harvard graduates are liberally educated and share common intellectual ground...