Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also boosting the cost of warships, of course, have been the advanced weapons, data processing centers and more comfortable accommodations that have become standard on the vessels. In the case of submarines, part of the price hike is because of the replacement of diesel engines by nuclear generators...
Chief contributors to the box score were the standard studs, attackmates Mike Faught and Steve Martin. They fast broke B.C. into intensive care, and when Coach Bob Scalise mercifully called an end to their two-man clinic midway through the third quarter, Harvard's version of Cowens-to-Havlicek had cooked for 16 points between them...
...recent past, foreign capital, in particular American capital, could defend its presence in South Africa by claiming it followed progressive employment practices that set a standard for others. In the pre-Soweto period when most South African blacks could visualize only a gradual process of improvement in their status, this argument carried weight. Advent of black consciousness, especially among urbanized young and dissatisfaction with pace of events has brought a shift in attitudes. Measures which only relieve hardships like marginal raises, subsidized meals, school fee allowances, and personal loans are seen as panaceas which evade question of basic rights...
...failed to mention a single favorable argument or the fact that 36 other Senators saw fit to support it. It is not absurd for the U.S. to establish a simple, legal basis from which to operate should Panama abrogate the treaty. Both Panamanians and Americans deserve to know what standard will apply if the treaty is not upheld. My amendment made it clear that if Panama goes back on this agreement, all other agreements and treaties we had with the Panamanians would re-enter into force...
...disputes the efficiency of MLS, but for three years an increasingly bitter international argument has gone on about whose design shall be chosen as standard equipment for the world. Australia and the U.S., plus France, Germany and Britain, had all had competing designs. By last week, when technical experts from more than 60 countries gathered in Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic...