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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he returned to Washington a month ago, Tongsun Park has kept a low profile. He has been spending most days testifying in secret before the House and Senate ethics committees about his activities during the late 1960s and early '70s as South Korea's celebrated influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Park Goes Public | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

The zone is one of the few places in the world left untouched by pesticides and herbicides. To help make the wildlife preserve even more flourishing, the South Korean government allocates some of its $400,000-a-year conservation budget for grain, which is spread by South Korean soldiers along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Peaceful Coexistence in Korea | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

> In 1973 and 1974, the U.S. spotted the Soviets using an antiaircraft radar system to track one of their own missiles in flight. The U.S. questioned whether the Soviets were illegally converting antiaircraft defenses into an antiballistic missile system. But the Soviets maintained that they were using the radar only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Soothe SALT'S Critics | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

If an employee cannot be fired, what about shifting him out of the department? A request for such a transfer must be submitted to the Civil Service Commission, where it often sinks out of sight. To get rid of incompetents, managers steer them to what are called "turkey farms," offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Battle over Bureaucracy | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Leakey, a small, spunky woman of 64, is the widow of the famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, who died in 1972. Some four decades ago, when she and Louis were beginning their quest for the origins of man, they worked for a time in a remote area of northern Tanzania called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laskey's Find | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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