Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting for my son to have a better life-I want a better life." So says a member of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry's Acción Popular party. He was talking about Belaúnde's land-reform program-the sensible, carefully thought-out plan that, when it was signed into law 19 months ago, was hailed by experts as the soundest ever set up in the hemisphere. For many Peruvians, the rub is that the project to settle 1,000,000 peasants on their own land and double the country's acreage under...
...crisis is not onesided. A tough, paternalistic administration has for years done little to improve faculty salaries, denied teachers any real voice in policy decisions. But many faculty members, led by two teachers' groups, have recently undertaken a campaign of harassment against the school, refusing to wait for reforms promised by the university's new president, the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill...
What held up their U.S. debut so long? Seems that the Immigration Department promised Peter his working visa as soon as he arrived in Manhattan but was in no hurry to clear the red tape for his lesser-known sidemen. Best decided to wait along with the other four. This loyalty probably cost him $50,000 in bookings. "But I didn't," he explains, "want to do to them the thing that happened...
...overtones, most military medics prefer not to talk about it. But it is a process of sorting that works for the greatest good of the greatest number. The triage officer looks over the wounded and makes the vital, split-second decision as to which require immediate surgery, which can wait a few hours, and which need only more first aid. Sometimes he must also make the conscience-racking decision that a man is beyond help or hope, that it would be a waste of doctors' time, and therefore endanger others' lives, to work on him. Such cases have...
...tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn how to sprint the last lap," he said. "Just wait-I am going to get that record." Snell, who was a spectator at the contest, thought otherwise. One day, he predicted, East Germany's May is going to run a 3-min. 50-sec. mile...