Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British Austin Mini, added an electronic microprocessor to fine-tune the motor while it is running and hooked up a hydraulic accumulator to store unused energy. The Colorado State team has used graphite and Kevlar in the frame to shave 600 Ibs. from an already light Audi. The name of this entry is Scab I, for "Screw the Arab bastards," the team cheerfully proclaims...
Last week, however, the FBI found Johnny C. TIME learned two details of his statement: he said his name is John Conaghan-and he denied ever giving Jordan any cocaine. That contradicted a statement he allegedly made on tape to Studio 54's owners. The FBI interviewed four other people who had been with Jordan at Studio 54; none had observed any use of cocaine...
...later Britain's First Sea Lord. Queen Victoria held him in her arms as he was christened Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas. The Battenbergs called their baby son Nickie, but its Russian connotation at that time prompted them to change the nickname to Dickie, much as the family name was later anglicized to Mountbatten...
After the war, Mountbatten literally made history: as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General on the Indian subcontinent, he oversaw the birth of self-government in the Empire's biggest possession, thus breaking ground for the postcolonial era. In 1955 he vindicated his father's name when Churchill appointed him First Sea Lord. Finally, during a six-year stint as chief of the Defense Staff, he built Britain's unified defense system, which he regarded as one of his major triumphs...
...older nonaligned members led by Yugoslavia and including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others that are all determined to maintain the authentic independence of the movement. With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status...