Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter's request to end the 42 month-old U.S. embargo on arms for Turkey. The ban had infuriated the Turks and weakened the southern flank of NATO. Whether or not Carter would succeed in persuading Congress to lift the embargo was seen as a major test for his Administration...
...these agencies could not accept money with such conditions. Voting the restrictions, therefore, could force the U.S. to quit the organizations. Heartened by its victory on this issue, the Administration is more optimistic about the prospects for the rest of the foreign aid program. But it faces a major test later this month when key Congressmen are expected to propose slashing more than half a billion dollars from the White House's requests...
Steptoe and Edwards refused to confirm or deny that there are any other test-tube babies on the way. But Steptoe hopes that "in a reasonable number of years, instead of this being a one-day wonder or a seven-day wonder, it'll be a reasonably commonplace affair." Nevertheless, said Edwards, a great many questions remain to be answered, the chief one being why the uterus accepts or rejects the test-tube embryo. Said he: "This is the first time we've solved all the problems at once. We're at the end of the beginning?not the beginning...
...hospital for about ten days. Then, said John Brown, "we're just going to go home and try to slide back into our own world . . . we don't want a newfangled life." Whether that will be possible is another question. Asked by reporters if the world's first test-tube baby could expect to lead a normal life, Edwards replied: "That depends...
...fact, all those night riders across the neon terrain not only summon familiar memories, but have misled some reviewers into thinking that Springsteen has driven himself right off Thunder Road and into a rut. "But," he says, "everything has its limitations and its ultimate possibilities, and you got to test them to find out what they are. It's like those Italian westerns at the drive-in. I always loved it that they showed 'em all at once. That's the way I make these albums?so they get played all at once...