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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, of course, is only as far as you can see. Richard once was an Air Traffic Controller for the American army. Then he was a farmer. And now he's one of the 66,000 refugees awaiting resettlement in a foreign country. "Any foreign country," says Richard in near-perfect English. "But I like to go the United States...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...commandant Reid seems numb to the entire situation. The pale blue walls in his airconditioned office near the camp's entrance are peeling and Reid has been working at Sham Sui Po long enough to know his routine. He takes a long puff on the first of a string of cigarettes and leans back to describe the camp. His voice is as disconnected from what it is saying to you as the camp is from the swankiness and luxury of the Peninsula Hotel--a 15 minute ride away...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

When I saw Ansel Adams on the cover, I was elated. I stopped on the way back to the house from the mailbox and took an especially long look at the Blue Ridge Mountains near my home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Faculty officials set out budgetary goals each year for every division, department and office under their bailwick. During the year they keep their fingers crossed, and at its end, they punch all their figures into their computer and hope the money that came in will end up somewhere near the money they spent...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Red and the Black | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...Lusaka last month, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took home plans for a comprehensive military and political settlement of the conflict in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, with the approval of her 38 Commonwealth partners. Last week, her plans seemed to become reality as two delegations arrived for talks in Lancaster House, near Saint James Palace in the heart of London. One group spoke for the Patriotic Front, won alliance of insurgent forces headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; the other represented the current government, led by Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and including Minister Without Portfolio Ian Smith...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Thatcher's Plan May Cave In | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

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