Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, and predictions are that it will cost $27 billion by 1985. The number of people receiving disability payments has tripled in 13 years, to 4.8 million workers and dependents, a total that exceeds the population of Virginia, say, or Norway. Disability costs are an important reason for the near bankruptcy of Social Security and the large payroll tax increase that was voted by Congress last December at the urging of the White House and Califano...
General David Martin, commander of the U.S. Army base near Mainz, had come with his civilian interpreter to join in the jolly burghers' celebration. But, to his dismay, he thought he detected a lack of strategic support on Miss Nelson's person. Though there is no written rule on the matter, the Army sent her a flat letter of reprimand...
...submachine gun from her bag and the other flashed a pistol as they demanded the release of the two prisoners. A quick-thinking guard grabbed the pistol and pulled Vogel back into a bulletproof cell. But the "lawyers" escaped with Meyer in a Volkswagen minibus that was conspicuously parked near the prison, with three other women...
...bandages, some hobbling along on crutches. Many were aged, others babes in arms. With the all too familiar misery of the homeless etched on their faces, the wretched bands made their way out of Viet Nam across the Nanhsi River into China. Elsewhere along the Sino-Vietnamese border, near Tunghsing, 52 escapees were fired on by Hanoi's troops as they tried to flee across the Gulf of Tonkin in a flotilla of tiny fishing boats...
...continental shelf of the Anatolian mainland bestows about half of the Aegean on Turkey. Two years ago, the countries came to the brink of war after Turkey sent an oil-exploration vessel around the area to establish Turkish rights. Meanwhile, both countries still maintain troops in a state of near-combat readiness around the disputed waters...