Word: realignment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will you please check the two holes in the flap of the envelope, if they open this letter (they always do) they can't possibly realign those holes. Dan Nolan
...City for the express purpose of reducing auto-caused air pollution. Williams admits, however, that some modifications will be needed later for the turbine to meet even tougher antipollution laws set for 1976 cars. Considering that-and the fact that it takes much time for automakers to retool plants, realign suppliers and retrain personnel-he predicts that gas turbines will appear in passenger cars in 1978 at the earliest...
...Nick Jenkins, out of the army and back in London as literary editor of a new little magazine. Once again the plot proceeds not so much by incidents as coincidence. In a series of set pieces -a funeral, a literary cocktail party -characters bob up from the past, intermingle, realign themselves and caper off. As they pass, the inexhaustibly observant Nick murmurs his commentary with a rueful smile. All rather contrived, perhaps, but as Powell has one of his characters say: 'Human beings aren't subtle enough to play their part. That's where art comes...
...respondents recommended that the government end the Indochina war, realign domestic priorities, and give greater recognition to student concerns...
...summer. Except for the farther radical fringes, antiwar dissenters wanted to allow Nixon time to make good his pledges to extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam. The nation had overcommitted itself both at home and abroad, and Nixon took it to be time to stop making promises, to realign American obligations with the nation's resources and desires. There are many who feel that America's problems are so great and urgent that it cannot endure an era of "consolidation." But the Nixon Doctrine appealed to Middle America...