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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the community's interest cannot be disregarded. Community leaders' most deep-seated fear is that once the diesels go in, they will keep running, no matter now much nitrogen dioxide comes out. The recommendations call for close monitoring of the plant's emissions, a state mandate to turn the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn It On | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

Eugene J. Green '80, president of the BSA, said yesterday the committee considered holding a rally, but will support the fund instead because of pleas by Williams' mother for people to remain calm.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BSA to Earn Money For Injured Boy | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

Last week President Carter granted clemency to the four Puerto Ricans remaining in prison. He had freed the fifth, Cordero, in 1977 because Cordero was dying of cancer. The White House cited "humane considerations" in freeing the terrorists. But the clemency also could help Carter politically among Hispanic voters in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Four Go Free | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Despite Andrew Young's own earnest pleas that his abrupt departure from Carter's Cabinet not be used to fuel black-Jewish divisions, inevitably it has. Though the two groups, once so closely and warmly allied in the early civil rights struggle, have been drifting apart for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: With Sorrow and Anger | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

It makes for speed. Trials without jury are brief; the more defendants who opt for them-and most do-the faster the Philadelphia courts can dispose of their huge case loads. Judge White likes to "move the business" right along; he hears three or four cases a day, disposes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Moving the Business in Philly | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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