Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this uproar over a plane operated by the U.S. embassy in South Africa being used for "spying" strikes me as a bit on the contrived side. Several American pilots-I was one -flew all around South Africa in 1968 in a group of small planes rented from the South Africans. No government official even hinted that we should not use the dozen or so cameras we carried...
Outside California, drivers so far seem to have their emotions more under control, but gasoline supplies are falling below demand in almost every state. Florida Governor Bob Graham reported last week that the summer shortage could be anywhere from 5% to 15%, depending on how much Floridians and tourists use their cars...
...must also take issue with Mr. Walker's deceptive use of numbers in an otherwise objective presentation. It is often said about military analysis that how you count determines what you will find, and this is seen in the following quotation from Mr. Walker's article: "The current (military) budget is higher than any other period of U.S. history excepting World War II and Vietnam. It is higher now than during the Korean War and in the past fifty years of relative peace...
...ORDER TO RELIEVE the pressures that drive students to use the sick-out, the University should form a policy which shifts the weighting of grades away from final exams to overall course-work. This approach could partially defuse the threat posed by final exams, and might also encourage students to keep up with their courses through the term...
...doubt that the Crimson would print advertisements which perpetuate racist stereotypes, yet it welcomes advertisers which use sexist stereotypes to sell their products. Two examples of such advertising which have appeared regularly in the Crimson are those for Pernod and for Busch Beer. The Crimson editors chose the most blatant example of exploitation of women, Playboy, to show their social concern; however, the more subtle sexual stereotypes portrayed in advertisements are more threatening to human rights, because they are more easily accepted...