Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game is drawing to an end. It was 13 years ago last week that Smith and his Rhodesian Front Party raised the green-and-white flag of independence over Government House in Salisbury; today, few governments in the world have recognized that flag, and 15,000 armed men wait across the border in Zambia and Mozambique for the right moment to attack. Two months ago, the guerrilla forces of the Patriotic Front shot down a Rhodesian airliner, and last week armed insurgents made their first foray into Salisbury itself. Some observers think the government will fall...
...phone rings in the front office in the basement of Grays Hall. A tape recorder switches on as a woman picks up the line. "Why don't you wait in the booth, sir," she says. "We'll send one over as soon as we can." She turnes to her co-worker "When can we get someone over to the garage?" She laughs. "A guy has a larceny on his car." A car responds to the call and heads to the Everett St. Garage. The rover car follows. Time elapsed--three minutes. On the second floor of the garage a flustered...
...group of students from Eliot House are considering circulating a petition asking the University to reimburse them for eating meals outside the College, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday. He added he will wait to see if the interhouse ban isolates the salmonella bacteria before considering such a rebate...
...American heartland. In most cases, however, the selling was self-protective rather than speculative in the true sense; if a manufacturer in Illinois bought steel from a German mill, it had a strong motive to sell dollars and buy marks immediately to settle the bill, rather than wait until the steel was delivered when buying the same number of marks might require more dollars...
...medical task force in Canada studied the effects of the annual Pap smear and two years ago reported that the results did not warrant the costs. Their recommendation: at age 18 any woman who has had sex should have her first Pap test. If it is negative, she should wait a year and have a second test. If that too is negative, then she should be screened only once every three years until age 35, then once every five years to age 60. If the test is still negative, there is no need for further exams...