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Word: tensely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radioactive wastes are the current gloomy spectre, but all types of hazardous wastes may haunt officials in the future. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently considering regulations to change waste disposal procedures. Should the regulations be implemented, says Carl Gerber of the White House's Office of Science and...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Dumping Off Harvard's Waste---Radioactive, That Is | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Mondale then stopped off in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an (Sian) where tens of thousands of Chinese streamed into the streets in a spontaneous outpouring of pro-American feeling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mondale Crosses the Boundary | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Seeking refuge from the fighting, tens of thousands of hungry, homeless Cambodian peasants have fled to makeshift refugee camps in Thailand; columns of Khmer Rouge guerrillas have also crossed the border temporarily, to rest and regroup. The exodus has been building since mid-April, when six Vietnamese divisions launched a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Fleeing Hunger And Death | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

It was like a carnival, a political campaign, a crusade and an enormous Polish wedding all in one. Almost from the moment his Alitalia 727 plane deposited Pope John Paul II in Warsaw and he knelt, in his gleaming white cas sock, to kiss the earth of Poland, his countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Triumphal Return | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

The most important finding of the commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Rudolph Erasmus, was that Vorster was fully aware of a covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Vorster Quits | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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