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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than a year before the first primaries, many a presidential straw is in the wind. Two current examples: > "I can say categorically that I have no political plans at the moment, but of course in the future I never exclude anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quit and Run | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...efforts to strengthen the alliance's defenses. But he disagreed with Carter's decision to delay development of the neutron bomb, and has expressed serious misgivings about the SALT II treaty. His tough anti-Soviet stance makes him attractive to some Republicans. But party pros say Haig's closeness to Nixon and the Watergate crisis will hurt his presidential chances, though they think he might make a strong candidate for the U.S. Senate, depending on where he settles when he returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quit and Run | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dreaming of the Golden Gulf | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Everyone who last had a say in the decision to limit the rise in this year's board charge did so because they believed the Food Services Department would have a surplus, which could make up for the scant 2.3-per-cent increase in students' bills. Unfortunately, food prices don't listen to Harvard administrators...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Next Year: Through the Roof | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...more mundane level, River House residents--who currently pay for toilet paper--not surprisingly said they want it free. And Quad residents, who don't pay for toilet paper, say they won't pay so everyone else can have it free. So much for Adam Smith's "invisible hand...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: The Roar of the Crowd | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

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