Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catcher's endurance was also put to the test in the early stages of the game. A catcher was credited with an error for any passed ball or dropped third strike, even if the runner was tagged out. Games also tended to be high-scoring. In 1870 the Harvard nine was the top amateur team in the country and played a barnstorming tour against professional clubs. In a game against a team from Lockport, N.Y., Harvard scored 36 runs in the third inning. The game was adjourned for a visit to Niagara Falls with the score...
Glenn urges instead-as he was going to tell the Groton audience-that the U.S. put "the decision directly up to the Soviets." He wants Washington to press Moscow for advance notice of missile tests and permission for U.S. flights "along an agreed-upon track, parallel to [the Soviet] ICBM test-launch range, and over Soviet territory." According to Glenn, the Soviets "must either accommodate to this new and unforeseen intelligence situation or be branded before the world as the party preventing a SALT agreement for reasons of their own secrecy...
...brusque U.S. response to Botha's charges, as well as the refusal to deny that espionage was involved, reflected the Administration's worries about South Africa's nuclear capacity. In 1977 U.S. and Soviet aerial reconnaissance photos provided evidence that the South Africans were preparing to test a nuclear device in the Kalahari Desert. Despite Pretoria's assurances that "it does not have and does not intend to develop nuclear explosives," President Carter declared at the time that the U.S. would continue "to monitor very closely" South Africa's nuclear development...
...city board of supervisors by Harvey Milk, a gay leader who was killed in November by Daniel James White, a former member of the board and a political opponent. Now running for the seat is Leonard Matlovich, who was discharged from the Air Force four years ago in a test case on homosexual rights...
...Notre Dame has already made clear their intentions if the equal expenditure test takes effect," Reardon said. "They'll just ignore...