Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago Dominguez returned to Cuba, the country where he spent the first 16 years of his life and the focus of much of his research, for the first time since 1960. He lectured at the Cuban Academy of Science, giving what he called "a standard Gov 40 lecture on alternative approaches to the study of U.S. foreign policy...
Last April, Picault helped Bario set up a raid in Mexico City that netted 33 lbs. of Colombian cocaine. Bario turned in 22 lbs. to the DEA, but let Picault keep the rest. Bario insisted later to his second wife and his lawyer that he was following standard procedure, allowing an informant to have some confiscated cocaine as a bonus to keep him loyal...
...want the U.S. to serve as a policeman in the Middle East. What we need is a "Carter plan" on the lines of the Marshall Plan, for helping us defend our borders and for raising our standard of living. You should make it easier for your friends to buy arms from you so they can defend their soil and live in a free country. I don't want a loan or aid from you, I want a partnership. For example, I have some of the richest soil in the world here. Let us take 100,000 acres and build...
...latest collaboration of Katharine Hepburn and Director George Cukor, who have worked together off and on since A Bill of Divorcement in 1932. Theirs was one of the movies' great creative partnerships: in such films as Holiday, The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, they set the standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental drama. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a no-nonsense English schoolteacher...
...beauty of this thing, says Jim Rugroden, 28, who invented the item when he was a physics student at the University of California at Berkeley, "is that it can go anywhere. Even up hills, apparently, provided the surface is hard and smooth Motoboarding is no cheap thrill, however. A standard Motoboard retails tor the special custom model...