Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest countries, Selassie was scheduled to proceed to one of its oldest-Haiti. There, conditions are so bleak under Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city and pour fresh concrete along part of the route...
Speechless Things. At the heart of the debate is a search for the proper limit on police power in a free society-a society that confronts its cops with fast cars, urban slums, organized crime, street violence, anonymous people, and a crime rate rising five times faster than the rate of population growth. To cope with such conditions, the police argue that they must have all reasonable authority to question any citizen. Investigation alone, they say, cannot solve many crimes, such as burglary, murder and mugging, in which the culprits leave no physical traces. "I defy anyone to find...
...proper criterion for admittance to the honors program in history--and in other departments--is the ability and willingness to do honors work in that field, not grades which may reflect performance in entirely different fields. Here the History Department is contemplating a step backward, while other departments (English, for example) have been advancing to less narrow grade requirements...
...sure that you will correct this error by putting the statement in its proper context. Thank you for your generally fine coverage. James Roosevelt, Jr. Speakers Chairman
From these inauspicious beginnings, Ghost goes wonderfully haywire. Maybe I should explain just who is this ghost in the invisible bikini and what does she want? Susan Hart plays her; her task on earth is to make sure Karloff's money finds its way to his proper heirs...