Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no doubt, though, that Pags will sign a free agent contract, and I would venture to say that given a decent look at his tryout, he'll make the grade...
Instructors are having some special problems. Observes a training officer at Great Lakes: "The reading level of our recruits is often below third grade. That means the sailor can't even read a warning sign on a ship's boiler room." One reason for low levels: creation of the all-volunteer military has removed the threat of being drafted into the Army, which was for years an incentive for youths to join the Navy. This means a growing number of the Navy's recruits are young men seeking cheap vocational training or an escape from some social...
...identify her husband's body, sobbed on her mother's shoulder. At dusk, small groups of workers and relatives gathered solemnly outside the chain-link fence surrounding the piles of rubble at the tower's base. Near the tangled mass of steel stood a faded sign: MAKE SAFETY A BELL-RINGER THIS YEAR...
...feel the need after so many days to convey to you with these few lines a sign of our affection. The thoughts of every moment are dedicated to you with renewed love, which from day to day grows with the knowledge of what you are and have been for us ... In this tragedy we have discovered, each one in his way, that you have given us unsuspected resources of moral strength and love. We cultivate, with prayer and deeds, the hope of seeing you again amongst us, and embracing you ... We love you profoundly...
...second is, it is time that one overcomes the ridiculous myth of the invincible Cubans. Who has ever heard of Cubans conducting a global foreign policy? We cannot conduct our foreign policy under the threat of the possible intervention of Cuban troops. It is a sign of the decline of our world position that we have inflicted on ourselves through Viet Nam, the collapse of Executive authority produced by Watergate, and our own internal disputes. Twenty years ago this would have been considered absurd, and it is a proposition that is bound to undermine our position around the world...