Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...start with, if the world is as badly off as Kennedy claims, Carter should be impeached if he leaves the Oval Office other than to eat and sleep. In truth, he is needed on the job in this crisis situation. A President cannot run this country properly from Air Force One or between bites of congealed cholesterol...
Under the legislation, men and women who turn 19 and 20 this year would begin registering at their local post offices in June, while 18-year-olds would start signing up in January 1981. No one would be exempt, not even conscientious objectors. Total budget for registration in the first year: $20.5 million...
...Ford did go for the nomination, he would start as a very long shot. Political professionals believe he would have to start almost immediately to mount a serious primary campaign. If he stays out beyond the end of February, he will miss the filing deadlines for primaries in which voters will choose almost 40% of the delegates to the G.O.P. Convention. But Ford shows no sign of making a move. Instead, last week he formally withdrew his name from the Connecticut primary. Ford could still run in the last few primaries, assuming he could raise money and create an organization...
...superpowers prowl the Indian Ocean "We have the preponderance of power. If it were to start tomorrow, it would be over in a day." So concluded a senior Pentagon official last week, referring to a potential U.S.-Soviet naval clash in the now strategically critical Indian Ocean, where mighty armadas of the two superpowers warily stalk each other. So far, U.S. Navy Task Force 70 clearly rules the Indian Ocean's waves. Though the total number of ships fluctuates as vessels rotate in and out of Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area...
...Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, gave his audience something to keep in mind as superpower leaders start talking about "winnable" nuclear wars...