Word: stay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides whisper in your ear, has led the city through the worst of times (i.e. the civil war to desegrate the city's schools) and now wants to guide his city into the 1980's. White is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in office and, if enough people stay awake to listen to his pitch again, he just may do it. No matter whose polls you believe, White is the favorite. The only question is how strong he will be going into the runoff...
Catherine Mullally Seattle I just returned from a kibbutz near Israel's border with Lebanon. During my stay we received a gift from the P.L.O. - a bomb. Fortunately no one was hurt, but that was not their intent. To grant the P.L.O. self-determination is a step toward the elimination of Israel...
...Vlasova had needed pressuring to return to the U.S.S.R., there was ample time to persuade her. When she arrived in Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status...
Since 1972 the Food and Drug Administration has been trying to follow the example of Britain and other European countries in limiting antibiotics in animal feeds. But a coalition of pharmaceutical manufacturers and farming interests has persuaded Congress to stay any action pending further studies.* This group contends that the real culprits are physicians who prescribe antibiotics indiscriminately for almost any ailment: colds, for instance, which are caused by viruses and are unaffected by antibiotics...
...average French family saves 18% of its income and West Germans put aside 12%, vs. just 5% in the U.S., which has the lowest savings rate of all industrial countries. Houses are only rarely heated from attic to basement. Apartment-house hall lights are connected to timers and only stay on a minute or so while someone passes through. Eating out is a luxury reserved for special occasions. In the end, judgments about the relative wealth of Europeans and Americans turn on one's definition of prosperity. "I have less than if I worked in America," concedes Hans-Heinrich...