Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throng, Eleanor drew herself up in front of the youth and asked him where he had got the poster. "I made it myself," he announced proudly, having no idea who she was. "Well, it's inaccurate," snapped Eleanor. "He only wants to cut defense waste." Pulling a scrap of paper from her shoulder bag, she asked for the boy's name and address and promised to send him some explanatory literature about McGovern's stance on the issues. "By the way," she added almost as an afterthought, "I'm Mrs. George McGovern...
Obviously it is too late to scrap plans for the Library and return the Square area to Cambridge residents. But at least the parties trying to find some solution to the Library's attendant problems can employ more judgment and forethought than that displayed by Kanavos and the City last week...
Nevertheless, the prospect for any quick surge of U.S. exports to Japan remains dim. The Japanese eagerly buy American industrial raw materials-coal, steel scrap and lumber-but the obstacles they put in the way of foreign manufactured and consumer goods are still high. The average Japanese tariffs on finished consumer goods have been lowered from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports...
...concentrating in Physics and Chemistry at Harvard, entered the tournament for the first time. His program finished in a tie for last place, and was labeled "the joke of the tournament" by International Master David Levy, the tournament director. Leverett attributed his defeat to "poor programming" and vowed to scrap his program and start all over again...
...WAVING a scrap of paper over his head, British Home Secretary Robert Carr rose to speak in the House of Commons. "Message from the Queen, signed by her Majesty's own hand!" he shouted. The paper, which Carr had brought by boat and plane from the royal yacht Britannia, on which Queen Elizabeth II had been cruising off the west coast of Scotland, was a declaration of a national state of emergency. It was the fourth such declaration that Britain's Tory government has had to seek since coming to power two years ago. The cause this time...