-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

The iris family contains about 70 genera and over 1, 600 species with a worldwide distribution.

AAS can be used to determine over 70 different elements in solution or directly in solid samples employed in pharmacology, biophysics and toxicology research.

The town has a population of 35, 203 according to the 2001 census and the urban area has a population of over 70, 000.

When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia by over 70 percent and NOx emissions by over 60 percent from 2003 levels.

However, this was significantly less successful than conventional regulation in the European Union, which saw a decrease of over 70 % in SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions during the same time period.

Clinton received 379, or over 70 % of the Electoral College votes, with Dole receiving 159 electoral votes.

LOB % tends to regress toward 70 – 72 % over time, so unusually high or low percentages could indicate that pitcher's ERA could be expected to rise or lower in the future.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

It became an international hit, seen in over 70 countries.

All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera ; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae.

Although as many as 70 percent of Colombians accessed the Internet over their ordinary telephone lines, dial-up access is losing ground to broadband.

Since we know that over 70 percent of children of intermarried couples are not being raised as Jews ... we want to encourage the Jewish partner to maintain his / her Jewish identity, and raise their children as Jews.

Taa, the last vibrant language in the latter family, has 45 to 115 click phonemes, depending on analysis ( clusters vs. contours ), and over 70 % of words in the dictionary of this language begin with a click.

Drexel offers over 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees.

There were also enormous war reparations to be paid over a period of 70 years, although they ended in 1931 ( but were resumed after World War II ).

This will involve the upgrading or construction of over 7, 500 km of roads, with the goal of improving the average road density for Ethiopia to 35 km per 1000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, and reduce the proportion of the country area that is more than 5 km from an all-weather road from 75 % to 70 %.

The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.

As it turned out, 2006 would prove to be the worst season for Essendon under Sheedy, and its worst in over 70 years, with a multitude of injuries and poor form affecting the team, none more so than the serious hamstring injury suffered by newly appointed captain Lloyd.

* Roadable Times – pictures and descriptions of over 70 designs of flying cars and roadable aircraft, past and present

The speed of these small particles could be measured over the range of 1 to 70 kilometers per second.

Trade with EU countries and the OECD now comprises over 70 % and 80 % of the total, respectively.

After the end of the American Civil War, he published Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, ( 1866 ) a collection of over 70 poems that generally was ignored by the critics, though a few gave him patronizingly favorable reviews.

The highlight of this fun fair is the long Parade of the Marksmen with more than 12. 000 participants from all over the world, among them around 5. 000 marksmen, 128 bands and more than 70 wagons, carriages and big festival vehicles.

By stripping it of its powers over temples, Augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function.

In temples, honey is poured over the deities in a ritual called Madhu abhisheka.

In the early period down to Ur III temples owned up to one third of the available land, declining over time as royal and other private holdings increased in frequency.

Quilter's Angel Moroni is on over one hundred temples around the world.

While Odin states that Vafþrúðnir knows all the fates of the gods, Odin asks Vafþrúðnir " from where Njörðr came to the sons of the Æsir ," that Njörðr rules over quite a lot of temples and hörgrs ( a type of Germanic altar ), and further adds that Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.

Only being outnumbered by ' Zen ' 1. 400 Nichiren temples had been founded all over Kyoto and although the various sects of Nichiren Buddhism were administratively independent they met in a council to resolve common problems.

The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: " You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi ..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale ( 1475 ) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones.

The gods were very angry over the destruction of their temples and other sacrilegious acts by the Acheans, and decided that most would not return home.

John works through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial Constitution is issued closing the temples, but the official appointed to execute this order is bribed.

The druids presided over human or animal sacrifices that were made in wooded groves or crude temples.

Once this part of the ceremony was over, temples were kept open and incense burned at the altars.

Many small gambling houses cropped up in abandoned temples or shrines at the edge of towns and villages all over Japan.

While passing through the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh it touches a small village called Dharmapuri which is a pilgrimage village with many ancient Hindu temples and river Godavari serving as spiritual place in true sense for bathing in Godavari river spread over rocks and sand.

This development had a direct effect on the sculptural decoration of temples, as many of the greatest extant works of Ancient Greek sculpture once adorned temples, and many of the largest recorded statues of the age, such as the lost chryselephantine statues of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and Athena at the Parthenon, Athens, both over 40 feet high, were once housed in them.

Some temples also display a small image of the baby Buddha in front of the altar in a small basin filled with water and decorated with flowers, allowing devotees to pour water over the statue ; it is symbolic of the cleansing of a practitioner's bad karma, and to reenact the events following the Buddha's birth, when devas and spirits made heavenly offerings to him.

* Supported by Thebes and Thessaly, Macedonia takes over Phocis ' votes in the Amphictyonic League, a Greek religious organisation formed to support the greater temples of Apollo and Demeter.

Portrait of cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara by El Greco circa 1600 shows spectacles with temples passing over the ears

The modern style of glasses, held by temples passing over the ears, was developed some time before 1727, possibly by the British optician Edward Scarlett.

Meanwhile throughout the city of Amasea, although entry into the temples and holy places had been forbidden by the decree of Theodosius I ( 391 ), the festival of gift-giving when " all is noise and tumult " in " a rejoicing over the new year " with a kiss and the gift of a coin, went on all around, to the intense disgust and scorn of the bishop:

" Hyett also erected temples and follies to Pan in the gardens of his house and a " Pan's lodge ", located over Painswick Valley.

:" There Achaea, i. e. Greece is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.

Symbolised by a broom used to sweep away evil influences, she ruled over the brooms used to purify temples in preparation for various worship services, sacrifices and celebrations.

The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument.

There were said to be at least four ancient Aztec temples at which she was worshiped, the tallest supposedly being over 200 feet tall.