Word: eights
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...principle of the "sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state." It thus demanded "the immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of the foreign troops from Afghanistan" and called on U.N. members and international relief organizations to help all Afghan refugees. The last of the resolution's eight points required the Security Council to "consider ways and means" to help enforce the resolution...
...wind, shifts in the polls, who's-up-who's-down, can an audience take before it tunes out? Many people are getting too bored to bother to vote at all. The primary turnout dropped from 39% of those of voting age in 1968 to 28% eight years later, and there is no reason to think it will not continue to decline...
...variety of human services jobs, and Place training has earned a reputation as an excellent way to learn counselling skills in action. Nine hotline training groups were held in 1978, with two experienced counsellors and about 15 neophytes each. Training groups meet one night a week for eight weeks and then hold an intensive encounter group-style weekend. While in training, volunteers familiarize themselves with the mass of literature assigned on counselling, drugs, Place procedures, and available social services. They also observe people on the hotline, answering a few calls themselves when they begin to feel competent...
...each week of the 13-week series, the shows stick to a general theme, such as hot and cold, near and far, big and little. "These are dimensions that eight-to twelve-year-olds use themselves in organizing their own experience," says Chen. For example, to demonstrate that sound consists of vibrations, Marc and Lisa play with a toy telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton...
...first spotted Jillian two years ago, Rooney has also wangled her a part as a showgirl in his Broadway hit Sugar Babies and a role in the upcoming movie, Panic on the Potomac, in which they will both play spacepersons who land in Washington. Jillian is described as eight-times-wed Rooney's "official protégée," meaning she gets the jobs because, as Mickey insists, "her looks are superfluous to her talent...