Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years blacks have moved inexorably westward until they reached Western Avenue, a gritty commercial thoroughfare only a few blocks from the park. Declared Store Owner Tony Caprio, 53: "This is the battlefield. We know that if we give up the park, it's the end of the Southwest Side. The blacks aren't going...
...Carter seek the same goal of a rejuvenated South restored to its proper importance in national politics. But he did not always hold so lofty a view of Jimmy. As a veteran of the civil rights movement, he had thought that "nothing good could come out of southwest Georgia," and felt that Carter came from the "meanest cracker country there is." But Carter's mother Lillian, whom Young met in 1970, smoothed the way to a meeting of minds. Young was impressed by the fact that she joined the Peace Corps at the age of 68. Later...
That both of the female baboons at San Antonio's Southwest Foundation for Research and Education had become mothers on Sept. 5, 1975, was hardly unusual. That each was the mother of the same infant male baboon was another matter entirely. In fact, delivery of the baby baboon, reported in Science, was the first birth of a primate resulting from an embryo transplant.* It also may have brought closer the day when a woman who can conceive but is unable to carry a child through a full-term pregnancy could allow another woman to carry and give birth...
...species mate only once in a lifetime, bug birth rates can be reduced by tricking them into mating with males that have been sterilized by exposure to radiation. In the 1960s, sterile males were used to eradicate the resident screwworm fly population in Florida and large areas of the Southwest. In a somewhat similar program, Agriculture Department officials in California recently released more than 350 million sterile males and females in an apparently successful attempt to control an invasion of relatively small numbers of the Mediterranean fruit fly. The invaders, mating mostly with the overwhelming numbers of sterile flies, could...
Such a gravy train actually exists. It is called the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Funds of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and it is a main source of the bare-knuckled union's awesome power. But last week the Internal Revenue Service challenged that power by canceling the fund's tax-exempt status, retroactive to Jan. 31, 1965. The IRS will surely have to defend its decision in court, but so far it has not even announced officially that it has changed the fund's status...