Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nevertheless, the lethal drinking continued. Cultists filled their cups from a metal vat on a table at the center of the pavilion, then wandered off to die, often in family groups, their arms wrapped around one another. The tranquilizers in the liquid concocted by the temple's doctor, Larry Schacht, 30, may have dulled their senses; it took about five minutes for them...
...international oil fleets, and to fight off any possible Soviet invasion of Iran, until, they hope, reinforcements from the West could arrive. The generals see the current dissent as part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...
...home, Wolfe practices what he preaches: he gave up cigarettes eight years ago, and avoids saccharine-sweetened drinks and processed foods. Like Nader, he avoids the party circuit. Nevertheless, he has become an accepted part of the Washington scene, not so much a noisome pest as a comforting, if disquieting, presence. Even FDA Commissioner Kennedy says of his nemesis: "If we didn't have Wolfe around, our society would be poorer...
...Nevertheless, in the past few years, domestics have begun to organize, and in 1974 the federal minimum-wage law was extended to household workers (it is now $2.65 an hour). The National Committee on Household Employment meets regularly to make recommendations for federal regulation of household working conditions. Their bargaining position, oddly enough, is strengthened by their dwindling numbers...
...people who staff its dining halls raises a number of disturbing questions about the underside of labor relations at Harvard. Granted, the exchange between the dining hall workers' union, Local 26, and the University negotiators has, to say the least, never been what anyone would term cordial. Nevertheless, the course of the recent negotiations reveals Harvard's consistently hard-line, legalistic and impersonal attitude towards organized employees...