Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defense officials cautioned that radiation tests of the atmosphere above the stretch of ocean had proved negative. Pretoria flatly denied all. ''Utter nonsense,'' snapped Atomic Energy Board Chairman Jacobus De Villiers. ''The U.S. must learn to get its facts straight,'' chided Foreign Minister Roelof (''Pik'') Botha. ''In an area that size, it could have been anyone...
...lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas-abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. ''It is like being naked in a steam bath,'' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked...
...connection between the jobs? "As coach, you must win or leave," said Doland. "I suggest this is similar to the president's position...
...more unlikely mountaineer could be imagined. Slight, sedentary, intensely fastidious, bored by hiking, Anton Webern nevertheless trudged determinedly up the alpine slopes of his native Austria. ''From time to time,'' he explained to his friend Alban Berg, ''I must breathe this air. Transparent, clear, pure-the heights...
...most important financial innovations of the postwar era. By opening a vast new source of investment capital, it has furthered international trade and development. But the $1 trillion credit reserve floating free from national or international restrictions also breeds currency instability and inflation. Moneymen figure that they must now correct the problems the Eurocurrency market has created without, in the process, destroying this useful credit system-but nobody is yet sure just how to do that...