Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autonomy, if not outright independence. Civil war loomed. The East's 75 million people had been under martial law since 1969. Now Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's troops, most of them Punjabis from the West who were offended by the East's separatist demands, went on a murderous rampage. Bengali refugees began streaming into India, eventually numbering some 8 million. India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, protesting that the refugees were placing an intolerable burden on her country, soon began hinting strongly at a move against Pakistan. In Kissinger's view, the refugee...
...sweeten compensation by increasing the generally nontaxable benefits, such as health and education programs, and even company-paid memberships in fitness programs. Between 1967 and 1977 corporations raised the dollar value of these benefits at an average annual rate of 17%; over the same period, cash wages and salaries went up only 10% a year. Boosting benefits is much more difficult now; they are included in the guidelines calculations and are becoming costlier to provide, especially in the case of medical insurance plans. Last year such benefits rose by only 9.5%, and almost all of that increase reflected higher costs...
...other hand, used its fourth signalcaller in as many games Saturday at Schoellkopf Field as Harvard quarterbacks continued to fall victim to the injury plague like so many medieval Europeans. After a sputtery offensive quarter and a half, Mike Smerczynski scrambled back toward the line of scrimmage and went down hard. He limped off the field with a badly sprained ankle, and the jinx lives...
Cannon-legged Cornell kicker Ron Rejda then went to work to close out the scoring in the half, booming 47 and 42-yd. field goals in addition to the PAT to make the score 13-0. Rejda was on his way to a school record for most points by a kicker (11), adding four more extra points in the second half...
...drive stalled again at the 25, but Tanner found tight end Brad Decker wide open at the 5 to set up a first and goal. When Bob Muha went over from the 1 two plays later, Cornell led 20-0 and was on its way to a romp...