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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Californians suspend nearly all normal politicking in their frenzy over the property tax battle, politicians seeking election elsewhere are watching nervously. Virtually to a man, and woman, they are preaching fiscal restraint this year. But as the candidates plunge into primary campaigns, their fates will be decided by the voters on the basis of a complex of intraparty feuds, personality clashes and local issues. Among the liveliest races...
...occasionally asked whether there is any distinction between the terms "disability" and "handicap." The former refers specifically to a condition of physical impairment such as paraplegia (paralysis of the lower limbs), deafness or blindess. The term handicap, however, can be defined more generally as anything that substantially impedes normal activity. The two concepts need not be synonymous. A person in a wheelchair, when provided with a barrier-free environment (e.g., curb cuts, ramps, accessible toilet facilities, lowered telephones, drinking fountains and elevator buttons) may experience no handicap whatsoever. In contrast, a shopper wearing elevator shoes and carrying several bulky packages...
Despite the terrorists' failure to disrupt the government, some Italians are pessimistic about its long-term future. In an interview with Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, the giant $13 billion industrial complex, complained that normal parliamentary life is being displaced by agreement at the top between the Christian Democrats and the Communists. In the future, he said, if Italy is to avoid outright authoritarian rule, it may be forced to settle for a vague extraparliamentary modus vivendi, arranged among what he calls the "real social forces," such as the trade unions, industry, the Ministry...
...three hours we traveled in a U.N. car throughout the whole area without incident: the outskirts of Tyre, the pocket and behind UNIFIL lines. Life appeared to be back to normal everywhere. In the current honeymoon phase, villages are happy to have the Israelis out and UNIFIL in. The troops are now getting voluntary intelligence from the villagers about such things as arms caches and mines in the roads. But as the guerrillas creep back and patience with the U.N. checkpoints wears thin, such cooperation is likely...
...apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and managed to keep him going until they reached Mt. Auburn Hospital. Bob maintained the rhythmic pumping of the man's chest all the way into the trauma room, where an emergency team waited with equipment to try and shock the heart back into its normal pattern...