Word: minor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1976, he looks as fit as ever. His aides released a report of his last physical examination, in April, which showed no signs of coronary disease and a blood pressure of 120/80-a rate physicians consider excellent. He has a touch of arthritis in his right thumb and a minor respiratory allergy to pollen. Reagan's aides contend that the age issue has been exaggerated by the press, yet polls repeatedly show that it concerns many voters. Reagan has faced the problem mostly by joking about it. In a jab at Carter's collapse during a long...
...unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many Israeli moderates were embarrassed by the Cabinet decision, believing it to be an exaggerated and heavyhanded response to a minor incident...
...House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives...
...billion bill that will offer loans and price guarantees over the next five years to private companies to open perhaps a dozen commercial synthetic fuel plants. The House passed a smaller synfuels program in early summer but is expected to accept the Senate's larger bill with minor reservations. In 1985 Congress will re-examine synthetic fuel development and decide whether the new technology's progress merits the additional $68 billion investment that Carter proposed...
...Harvard squad suffered many injuries during the game which might be attributed to the frigid drop in temperature early in the third quarter. Kydes, Wilmot, and junior Norrie Harrower were all hurt in the second half but the injuries turned out to be minor. "I have a muscular strain in my ankle. I trod on it wrong and it pained me terribly, but when you get up and run on it, its ok," said an elated Wilmot, "You know I didn't think it was going in but I was delighted it did," he added...