Word: two-week-old
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...attempt to force reconsideration tonight of a two-week-old city council vote against rezoning the Alewife area of the city appears likely to fail...
...they do something terrible. These people wouldn't dare take action against them." So said China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last week, puffing on a Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort to placate international alarm, he repeated assurances that the operation "will be limited in degree...
Once again an epidemic of strikes by rapacious unions enfeebled Britain. A two-week-old walkout by 75,000 truck drivers severely impeded shipments of food, medicine, raw materials and other essential commodities, forcing layoffs of as many as 150,000 workers from idle factories and producing shortages of such staples as sugar, salt, flour and butter. Massive traffic jams clogged the highways as commuters switched to cars in the face of walkouts by locomotive engineers. Worse was to come, as 1.5 million public service workers threatened a 24-hour walkout this week...
While the final result was not encouraging, Harvard may have finally solved its two-week-old quarterback problem. After Larry Brown and Burke St. John had combined to give the Crimson only one score in the first half, coach Joe Restic went to a shotgun formation with Brian Buckley doing the throwing...
...breast-feeding mother with her two-week-old infant in tow. A Britain-baiting bartender from Northern Ireland. A maverick former Tory who has been widely denounced as a racist. It was an odd trio, but their support proved essential to Britain's beleaguered Labor government last week as Parliament narrowly passed a series of hotly debated bills. Had the measures been defeated, Prime Minister James Callaghan could have been forced to dissolve the Commons and call for new elections. The closeness of the votes was further proof that Callaghan's hold on No. 10 Downing Street...