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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years ago that members of Congress first asked then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger if he could report on the condition of human rights in countries that receive U.S. aid. Kissinger ran a test inside the State Department, took one horrified look at the findings and then told Congress that the idea was impractical. Whereupon a law was passed making the report mandatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Human Rights Scorecard | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...election was brief as only seven HUISA members ran for the seven available posts. Rafi Ahmed, Ramani A. Aiyer, Henri Gillet, Mary T. Lynch, Felix Twaalhoven '79, Salim Walji and John D. Weston '80 will take over next year from the present governing board, which was appointed last November by Faculty advisers Archie C. Epps, dean of students, and Jennifer Stephens, director of the International Office...

Author: By John D. Weston, | Title: International Students | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...boxing would not be where it is without him. The sport badly needed Ali for his flamboyance and, more importantly, for his intelligence. In a rapidly advancing technological and intellectual age, boxing's barbarity made it assume an inhuman and primitive quality which ran counter to prevailing ideas...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

...addition to missing the Nationals, Fayer ran into one other problem this season--psych. She said, "I had difficulty getting psyched for all the little dual meets because I had never swum in so many small meets before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting an Early Jump on the Spring Vacation... ...By Managing in Russia... ...Or by Swimming in Rome | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

...McCarthy campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination to offer voters an alternative to the Johnson administration's prosecution of the Vietnam war, but lost to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), Johnson's vice president. He ran briefly in Democratic primaries in 1972, and as an Independent candidate in the 1976 presidential race, in which he received over a million votes...

Author: By Erica G. Foldy, | Title: McCarthy to Present Lecture, Read Poetry at Harvard Today | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

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