Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miles' Law. Where you stand depends on where you sit.−Former HEW Administrator Rufus Miles...
...Germany in 1937 as Hitler was preparing for his conquests. As vice chairman of the World War II U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, he assessed the hellish aftermath of the raids on Dresden and Hamburg. He studied the fire bombing of Tokyo and was among the first Americans to stand in the scorched nuclear wasteland that had been Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He remembers staring at the tiles that had bubbled from the atomic heat...
...Middle East by an incumbent U.S. Secretary of Defense. "The trip is intended as a demonstration that the U.S. recognizes the strategic importance of the region," a senior defense official told TIME Correspondent Don Sider, who accompanied Brown. "It is our purpose to convey the reassurance that we will stand by our friends against external threats...
...walkout finally seemed headed toward a settlement, there was an air of desperation about Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan when he appeared in Parliament. Waving a new 19-page peace treaty with his Labor government's once strongest backer, the powerful Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.), Callaghan declared: "We stand by this document, and we will win the election with...
Schlesinger's office is preparing a packet of mild stand-by controls, some to be sent to Congress next week. Among the proposals: allocate crude and refined products to spread the shortages among distributors and retailers and ban gasoline sales during most hours on weekends...