Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...faces opposition from Dhofari extremists, backed by the South Yemeni government in Aden and half a dozen Chinese advisers, but the rebel pressure will be sharply reduced. Even if Britain withdraws its 300 R.A.F. regulars by the end of 1971, as presently planned, Qabus appears capable of rallying enough support from his subjects to survive...
...been slashed to $3.3 billion for fiscal 1971 compared with peak spending of $5.2 billion in 1965. Total employment by NASA and its private contractors has dwindled from 420,000 in the heyday of the Apollo program to fewer than 145,000 today. Nor has NASA gotten significant support from the White House. "With the entire future and the entire universe before us," said President Nixon, outlining the Administration's cautious new approach to space, "we should not try to do everything at once...
...main campus in Austin showed 80% favoring Erwin's impeachment on the ground that he had "unwarrantedly interfered" with school operations. In the aftermath of Cambodia and Kent State, he refused to close down the Austin campus: "I'm unwilling to pay taxes to support an institution that just turns things over to these activist faculty members and students," says Erwin. "Students have no inherent rights to attend a college or university, just regardless of what they do." When some professors threatened to resign over Silber's dismissal, Erwin responded: "If any person employed by the university...
...current market did not fall in wild, panicky drops, as some bears had expected during the glum days last spring. But there were some sharp breaks in individual stocks. In a special report made after the assassination of President Kennedy, the SEC severely criticized the specialists for failing to support the market during that difficult time...
...rebels against the role of scapegoat that the Navy's board of inquiry tried to assign him and a few others. The commander succeeds to the extent that he shows his real adversary to have been a fantastically inefficient bureaucracy-the U.S. Navy. Armbrister's findings generally support Bucher. Yet these two densely detailed books also show, almost inadvertently, that Bucher himself was not the decisive officer he might have been...