Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harder for a man to take a second wife or to dismiss a spouse with the curt command: "I divorce you." In 1975 Thai women won the right to run for election as village chief or attain the rank of general in the army. But they still cannot sign a contract or apply for a passport without their husband's permission...
...against a tax cut, a difficult situation with an election year coming up. Congress whipped together a compromise that would continue the tax reductions while vaguely promising to try to control spending. Ford agreed to live with that rather fuzzy promise, and the prospect was that he would sign the compromise bill this week...
...London, I wasn't popular at first. I swore to myself, "When I am popular I shall be so gracious to everybody. I will sit at the steps of the stage door saying, 'My people, how I love you. There are only 300 here? I can sign all the autographs. Some of you go off and have a drink, and then come back.' " But when I became popular, I wasn't like that at all. I'd take one horrified look at them, turn up my coat collar...
...agreement, but he is also anxious to give potential opponents at the Party Congress no chance to suggest that he has given the U.S. concessions under pressure of a deadline. Says one Kremlin watcher in Moscow: "If Brezhnev goes into the Congress and says he is not ready to sign the SALT agreement because the Soviet Union cannot live with it, he is likely to receive a standing ovation...
Dutch anger at the South Moluccans could subside as quickly as it arose once the grim episode has been concluded. Nonetheless, hundreds of citizens lined up last week to sign a petition calling for especially severe penalties for terrorist crimes. At week's end, there was great concern for the fate of the 25 hostages held by the South Moluccan terrorists at the Indonesian consulate-especially after seven shots were heard inside the building on Sunday...