Word: phases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does his job. He may overwhelm himself with too many facts, to the point that he cannot finally make a decision with vision and conviction. He may be searching for a mid dle way, the pathway of the healer. But it may be time now to move beyond that phase and take a road that will collide headlong with noisy minority interests. The late, infamous Jimmy Hoffa, prodded once about truth's being "somewhere in between," answered contemptuously and correctly, "The truth is where it's at." Leadership, too, is where it's at, and not necessarily...
...anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed the NFL, while the Mets, on the way to the World Series, split a double-header with Montreal. In the Middle East, the war of attrition entered a new phase, as the Israelis began using their air power on Egyptian bases...
...Khedda-as well as eleven political prisoners who had been convicted of trying to overthrow Boumedienne in 1969. Associates of Ben Bella were exultant. Said Bachir Boumaza, his onetime Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is in exile in Geneva: "We are now entering a new phase in Algeria's history." Still, Ben Bella was unlikely to try a political comeback. Though he is now free to see visitors at his new home in M'sila, 187 miles from Algiers, his movements are restricted to a limited area around the town...
...week later the party dropped another 750,000 votes in elections for the new European Parliament. The downward trend continued last week in Berlinguer's native Sardinia, where the party polled less than 30% in a regional election. Stunned by these setbacks, the Communists are entering a phase of soul searching and reappraisal...
...mortgage borrower. Under pressure from the Gray Panthers' senior citizens' lobby, the Administration has proposed the lifting of interest ceilings on savings deposits and has urged that all federally chartered savings banks offer interest-bearing checking accounts. Last week Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal endorsed Senate legislation to phase out ceilings over a ten-year period...