Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single long erasure would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part?a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head. This might have erased the telltale marks on the tape...
Displaying a sure political instinct, Simon has been extremely sensitive to reports of domestic price-gouging. When truck drivers last month blockaded highways to protest, among other things, allegedly illegal price boosts on diesel fuel, Simon ordered Internal Revenue Service agents to "sweep" truck stops in 16 states. The taxmen found 1,222 of 4,689 truck stops violating regulations. Most were ordered to roll back prices and make refunds to truckers...
...battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression of a man who is tired and bored, as if the frustrations of domestic politics are too much to bear after the heady sweep of his foreign policy successes...
Aside from the 600, where the Crimson's Nick Leone should lead a sweep, Harvard could be in for a rough time. The Northeastern distance corps. featuring rick Buckley and John Flanders, could give Ric Rojas a little competition in the mile and the two mile...
...voting, which allotted seats on the basis of party slate showings rather than to individual candidates, included Armored Force General Shlomo Lahat and outspoken Housewife Shulamit Aloni. Lahat campaigned for mayor of Tel Aviv as though he were waging a military campaign. "Give me a broom and I will sweep this city clean" was his slogan. In a country where sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform called for civil marriage and divorce...