Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nixon's speech sought to reassure the U.S. at a time when polls show that domestic discontent over the war is rising anew. It was full of highly hopeful statements: "Pacification is succeeding"; "The South Vietnamese can develop the capability for their own defense"; "We finally have in sight the just peace we are seeking." Those words, coupled with the specific promise to pull 150,000 more U.S. troops out of Viet Nam within a year, may well have the intended calming effect at home...
...pledge their concern and plans for reform. Continental Oil Co. introduced four new "cleaner-air" gasolines for its Rocky Mountain marketing area. The Scott Paper Co. came forth with a $36 million project to control pollution at one of its plants. Sun Oil Co. announced a program to develop throw-away containers that can be easily destroyed. Beer companies and bottlers took full-page ads beseeching their customers not to scatter empty cans across the countryside...
...Galosh missiles, which carry a 1-or 2-megaton warhead and have a range of several hundred miles. Because the Soviets halted deployment of the Galoshes three years ago, many Americans felt that the system was being abandoned as technically unfeasible. The Pentagon maintains, however, that the Soviets have developed an improved version. In addition, the Russians have embarked on the nationwide installation of their Hen House radar stations (so called because they look like large rectangular cages), designed to track incoming missiles for the Soviet ABM system. The Pentagon cites the Soviet developments as a reason for pressing ahead...
...circuit." At 13, Irv and Older Brother Izzie were pulling in $500 a week all summer. That led eventually to ownership of a drugstore in the black ghetto of Washington, D.C., where he took on a line of phonograph records and soon began to produce them. He helped to develop the now illegal "payola" system of bribing radio stations to plug his records, and in the 1950s, he launched concert tours with artists like Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole and Fats Domino. "I was the first one to say," he claims, that "the big bands were going...
They also have a certain tendency to cliche shown most clearly in their chapters on SDS. Sometimes they even develop a love for their own phrase and words. For example, they tell us in an early passage about university malcontents that...