Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found confidence visibly emerged during the conference; women were suddenly put together with others sharing their views, hopes and anxieties. Alliances were forged for the battles that lie ahead. The women knew that their political skills were on trial, and they passed the test with flying colors. No one could accuse the participants of being any less adroit, canny or Machiavellian than men. Reports TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "What had not been clear was whether women who were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept in order...
...route" to the Middle East. So concerned were Air France pilots about the Concorde's future that they voted to keep flying the plane this week even while grounding all other flights in a strike. The Concorde, they allowed, merited an "exceptional agreement" during its critical New York test...
...incumbent upon Israel to show an equal willingness to negotiate on realistic terms. The true test of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government is not in merely receiving Sadat in proper form, but in furthering the progress of this unexpected chance to break the diplomatic stalemate in the Middle East. The biblical rhetoric that Begin espoused must give way to a more flexible and realistic bargaining position. As Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said last week, Israel must quickly re-examine its past positions and develop its ultimate attitude on important questions such as its borders, the existence and location...
...Crimson can still look forward to tangling with ninth-ranked Holy Cross, spearheaded by soph Ronnie Perry. Perry was the most heavily recruited schoolboy from the Boston area three years ago along with Harvard transfer Joe Beaulieu. Coach George Blaney's Crusaders will face their first real test when they latch up with Iona College in their fourth game of the season...
...last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery...