Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is left is the final disco, held in the room where policies on hunger, energy and voter apathy were thrashed out. Red lights flash over a parquet dance floor. The room fills with the blast of a band from Washington. The name of the band is Survival...
...general repairman at a Louisiana chemical factory. But to many people Weber personifies the sticky question of reverse discrimination. He had come to the unfamiliar setting of the nation's high court to hear oral arguments in a case, Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber, that will make his name as well known as Allan Bakke's. In Bakke the court outlawed explicit racial quotas for admission to universities receiving public funds; Weber tackles the more far-reaching issue of racial preference in employment...
...Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations, be called by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria was something else. Without this change he could not sign, insisted the Premier. He clamped his jaw. The Knesset had approved the treaty with the biblical terms, explained Begin. Inured to such tactics, Carter suggested a footnote to cover Begin's objections. But it could...
Instead of Obote, the exiles chose a compromise leader, Y.K. Lule, 66, former chancellor of Makerere University. Under the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front, the group declared that the new government will re-establish democratic principles, including the rule of law and respect for human rights. That would be quite a change for Big Daddy's tormented domain...
...Chinese premier's name "Hua Kuo-feng" in Wade-Giles--would become "Hua Guofeng" in Pinyin. Egan said. The Chinese word for China. "Chung-kuo," is "Zhangguo" in Pinyin...