Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latest plans call for the school to have physical facilities at several sites-at M.I.T. Harvard College the Med School, and in Harvard's teaching hospitals. These would be developed over the next five years...
...believes desegregation necessary to good education, plans to issue another statement spelling out his views on school integration. Nixon met with 35 black officials last week, seeking guidance on the shape of a major public pronouncement. In the light of Presidential Aide Daniel Patrick Moynihan's recent call for a period of "benign neglect" on race (see ESSAY), such a statement is needed...
Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
...education problems or whether integration alone is an ultimate panacea for racial ills. This position, of course, can be an excuse for doing nothing at all, but Moynihan is as persuaded as Nixon that the country cannot be run from Washington, and he vigorously supports the President's call for a revitalization of local initiative and a sharing of federal revenues with the states. He has sharply criticized the federal highway program and much of urban renewal because they have insensitively uprooted local communities...
...There are fears among some West Germans about what they call the Finlandization of their country. Anticipating U.S. troop withdrawals, they worry that West Germany will be left so vulnerable to Soviet pressure that the country may be decisively influenced by a desire not to offend Moscow...