Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford did that. "The original mistake was mine," he said. "I did not express myself clearly; I admit it." The President also promised to sign a veterans' bill, sought by Polish Americans for 30 years, that would grant medical benefits to Poles and Czechs now living in America who fought under the Allied command in World Wars I and II. Wasting no time, Ford put his signature on the bill in a Rose Garden ceremony, while cameras rolled and ethnic representatives beamed...
Wade's account brought a wave of queries from the outside world. Instead of issuing the customary denials. Foreign Office spokesmen replied smoothly with "No comment." Foreigners in Peking soon discovered that photographs of the four radicals were no longer available in bookstores-a common sign of a purge. None of the radicals appeared at Peking's airport when visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare arrived, giving further credence to the tale of their arrest. None of the four were at Somare's welcoming banquet next day, but neither was Chairman Hua. His ally...
...unconfirmed rumors that sifted out of Peking last week named the former Vice Premier as one of the chief engineers of the anti-radical coup. Teng would probably have to go through new rituals of selfcriticism, but if he is in fact rehabilitated, it would be a sure sign that the post-Mao leadership now in place intends to move steadily in the direction of pragmatism and an easing of Mao-style revolutionary fervor...
...manufacturers are required to give the Environmental Protection Agency at least three months' notice before beginning commercial production of a new chemical or before marketing an existing chemical for a new use. If the EPA sees no risks, it can simply give the chemical company the go-ahead sign...
...Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never made explicit between Wray...