Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend you for giving recognition to the equestrian Three-Day World Championships [Oct. 2] and to a sport that has been in the background for years but is growing in popularity. H?wever, I find it appalling that this phase of competition causes the death or near death of horses. It is time changes occurred to allow horses to remain healthy and still bring honor...
Carter also rated a 72% for "providing moral leadership," an improvement from the 66% of last June but still down a lot from the glowing 91% that he scored near the beginning of his Administration, in March 1977. Carter's report card dropped somewhat in the general area of domestic social policy. Only 54% rated him favorably on aid to cities, 53% on coming to grips with the energy problem, and 52% on "keeping our defenses strong." Unquestionably, he fared worst on all economic issues - 49% on providing jobs, 47% on cutting back government bureaucracy and 24% on curbing...
...Angeles last week and put his left hand into the mailbox. "I felt a sharp pain, and then it felt as though my hand was in a vise," he recalls. When he pulled his hand back, he brought with it a 4½-ft. diamondback rattlesnake, its fangs buried near his left thumb. He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death. Fire department paramedics chopped off the snake's head with a shovel, and discovered that the rattles had been removed so that...
...entrepreneurs in Charleston, Ill., scene of the fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate. In 1969 the businessmen enthusiastically erected what they claim is the world's largest statue of Lincoln-62 ft. of fiber glass and steel that cost $40,000-on a site three miles out of town near land they hoped would become a national park...
...kuang, 39, and his wife Wang Yen-liu, 36, are field hands on the Ta Li People's Commune near Canton. Country people fare quite well, at least in fertile farming areas. Like all the other peasants in Hao Mei village, the Ch'ens own their own house, a fairly new whitewashed brick building in a row of ten attached tile-roofed dwellings on a narrow lane. Their home, which they share with three daughters, 11, 9 and 4, consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with...