Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Carter visited the U.S.-ruled Canal Zone, his speech was boycotted by many Americans who worked in the area and who had bitterly opposed the treaties. Speaking to an audience composed mainly of U.S. military personnel and their families, Carter stressed that the job rights of the American civilians would be protected. The President may have made few converts that day, but throughout his trip he managed to exude a sense of energy, verve and diplomatic savvy...
Chrysler ordered a canvass of its zone managers, service managers and dealers around the country. The results, says Jeffe: "Absolutely zilch. Not a single complaint from a customer about the handling of the car." Motor Trend Executive Editor Chuck Nerpel said that in tests run by his magazine, Omni-Horizon stood out as "an agile car." Consumers' Research, a rival of Consumers Union, tested the Omni-Horizon under normal road conditions, rather than on a special track; it passed...
Chinatown, featuring fine food at generally low prices, is only a few blocks from the Essex subway station; if you want to avoid walking through the sleazy Combat Zone, however, you should take the subway only as far as the Washington St. station and then loop around the Zone to get to Chinatown...
...result, are allowed into Namibia to escape the fighting, as are some UNITA guerrillas. One wounded fighter recently showed up at a South African border camp, where he accepted a field bandage for his leg and a meal of corn mash and gravy. Leaving for the combat zone, he cockily echoed a line that the charismatic Savimbi impresses on his followers: "Without the Cubans and the Russians, the M.P.L.A. is lost. They know it and we know...
...outskirts for interrogation; from time to time the sharp rattle of gunfire filled the air. Toward week's end, President Mobutu ordered his troops to clear civilians from a 65-mile stretch of Shaba province along the Angolan border. The area, he warned, would be a fire-free zone, in which Zaïrian troops would have permission to shoot at anything that moved...