Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasionally at Washington's First Baptist Church, his belief in the perfectibility of man, his deeply moving experience of witnessing Southern whites coming to terms with blacks, and his own triumph in surmounting enormous odds to reach the White House. He has called for the U.S. to "set a standard of morality" and to pursue policies based on "decency and optimism...
Such an extension of the standard U.S. working life would not be universally applauded. Although AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, now 82, is hardly a per suasive personal advocate of early retirement, Big Labor has quietly opposed the Pepper bill. The bill could also create a policy problem for liberals like Senator Hubert Humphrey who have long called for achievement of full employment through a planned economy-a goal that would become all the more difficult and costly if a lot of elderly job seekers were to enter or stay in the labor force. At present, some 2.8 million...
...begins pouring into storage tanks at the Alaskan port of Valdez. The first tankers loaded with the oil are due to be on their way to Long Beach, Calif., by the end of August. About 30% of the oil is to be transshipped to refineries on the West Coast. Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (Sohio), which is owned by British Petroleum, wants to pump the rest of the oil, which is not needed in the Pacific Coast area, to refineries in Texas through an existing natural-gas pipeline that would be modified for the purpose...
...priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track, Couture explaining, always explaining, how to attack each bend, each kink. Then he drove us to the cars: Formula Fords, long-nosed fiber-glass machines that weigh about 950 lbs. and are powered by a standard Pinto engine. Formula Fords are stripped for speed: no windscreen, no headlights, no speedometer (a tachometer is your guide...
...Fixing a standard dose so each tablet of aspirin or acetaminophen for adults contains 325 mg. and those given to children 80 mg. The panel pointed out that such standardized quantities will not only help avoid misuse of the drugs but also assure consumers that they are getting the same quantities of analgesics in different brands...