Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About a Stranger), a U.S. Army recruiting poster, an autographed Al Capp cartoon of Li'l Abner and a tile floor the Reagans laid themselves. Wearing an assortment of cowboy hats and a state policeman's hat, Reagan posed for photos and then asked his visitors to sign a guest book. He said that the ranch provided him the chance to drain away tensions by digging postholes, building fences and riding horseback. "It kinda does something for us," he said. Then there were the small challenges. Two months ago, Reagan knocked off a rattlesnake with a well-aimed...
...engines of the Hercules were kept racing, the commando units, in civilian dress, fanned out across the airfield and headed for the old terminal (with its WELCOME TO UGANDA sign) where the skyjackers were guarding the hostages. After a 15-minute blaze of gunfire, it was all over. The terrorists, according to Israeli reports, were dead, and the hostages were on the planes. It had taken less than a half-hour, and the transports were back in the air. Before they left, the Israelis badly damaged or destroyed the Soviet-made Ugandan air force MIGS that were parked...
Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...sign of insecticide failure is obvious. Because of overexposure, insects are becoming more immune to chemical pesticides. In fact, the Department of Agriculture reports that of the 500 or so species of insects that do significant damage to crops, 267 have built up resistance to insecticides...
...warning sign is a sudden resurgence of inflation. From January through May, prices have been rising at a faster rate than in 1975 in four of the seven nations represented at Puerto Rico. The British rate, though it declined from 24.9% to 15.7%, remains ruinously high. Meanwhile, the Japanese tempo has nearly doubled, and Italy's rate has rocketed to potentially catastrophic proportions (see chart). The U.S. has reduced its rate to an acceptable level-by following politically painful policies of holding down growth and accepting a high level of unemployment...