Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have to have this blank piece of paper filled by June 3, the date set for the release of the new Kennedy Library plans. The designer has repeatedly had to scale down and even scrap many of his original plans to appease local civic and architectural leaders who fear environmental damage to the Cambridge-area community...
...Scrap Subjects. Gothard, cheerfully convinced that he teaches only what the Bible does, is less concerned with his critics than with administering a budget that should reach $8 million this year. The money goes into a 200-acre headquarters complex in Oak Brook, Ill., where a staff of 70 answers 200 spiritual "Dear Abby" letters per month, prepares advanced seminars and is developing a national training center for pastors and schoolteachers, as well as a "character curriculum" that he hopes many colleges will adopt. According to Gothard, they should scrap conventional subjects and rebuild courses around 49 virtues, including diligence...
...bomb was missing, and no amount of searching succeeded in locating it. As the military sweated, a senior officer happened to visit a dump on a military base. He strolled between piles of discarded A-bomb casings that were about to be offered for sale as scrap. There among the rejects he found the missing bomb...
...real bad-ass man. While still a kid in California, he escaped from two reform schools seven times. At age 18 he moved on to car theft. That drew him ten months in the Ventura County jail. Next time came a 90-day sentence for raiding a scrap-metal yard...
...hasn't been a great year for international revolution. The two countries whose apparent victories lit up last May Day have found their victories elusive. In Vietnam, the cease-fire won by almost three decades of struggle proved to be little more than a scrap of paper, as the dictatorship of Nguyen Van Thieu continued to hold tens of thousands of political prisoners and to attack liberated territories. And Chile's military, frightened by Popular Unity's movement toward true socialization of wealth and its rights--within the framework of traditional law and with full respect for traditional civil liberties...