Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shredded red tape into confetti, largely deregulated the nation's airlines and restored healthy competition along with lower fares. Economist Kahn is such an impassioned deregulator that he promoted the liquidation of his own empire. He supported a bill that will weaken the powers of the CAB and phase it out of existence by 1985. Said he: "I will consider myself a success in this job if there is no job when I leave...
...incensed over a diplomatic dispute with Washington, has singled him out as an "example" among foreign drug smugglers; the upshot is a new 30-year sentence, which provokes Billy to deliver an ugly tirade against the Turkish people and nation during his day in court. This marks a new phase, the hardening of Billy Hayes if you will. Billy joins Jimmy Booth in his latest escape plans, Billy goes berserk and mutilates the lifeless body of Rifki (a scene that ranks up there with the most wanton exercises of filmed violence marking Jaws and The French Connection), and he winds...
Administrators apparently will make no decision in the near future on last spring's recommendation by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) to phase-out the $5 term bill fee undergraduate women pay to the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...allowed to charge undergraduate women five dollars on their term bills because the group supposedly watches out for women and presents programs for their benefit. But the poor response to the elections and last year's recommendation by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to phase out the term bill fee gradually shows that many students are skeptical about the need for RUS and the group's ability to fulfill its goals...
...white smoke that heralded his election also signaled a new and unpredictable phase in religious geopolitics, for Wojtyla is the first Pope to come from a nation under Communist rule. The Cardinals insisted with one voice that they had selected their new leader without intending to set any political line, indeed without even taking time to weigh the ramifications. To be sure, the election came quickly, on the second day and eighth ballot of voting. Still, because of the implications for relations not only with Moscow but also with the powerful Italian Communist Party, few observers had thought that...