Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French and other foreign residents. Even the climate is dreadful: from May to October the temperature averages a windburned 92°. Afars and Issas, in short, is not even a nice place to visit. Yet dropping in on Djibouti last week, at the height of the cool (mid-80s) season, was French President Georges Pompidou...
...wrath-and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs when he copied the design of a grounded U.S. B-29 and put a Soviet version into production within a year. Tupolev remained active until his 80s, and is thought to be the creator of the new Soviet bomber. Backfire, the world's first swing-wing intercontinental bomber...
...welfare expenditures to their needy members: more than $ 17.7 million in 1971. About $8,000,000 was raised by their monthly fast days, after which they turn over the price of missed meals to their poor. Despising doles, the Mormons insist that welfare recipients, even in their 70s and 80s, earn their checks by working on farms, in canneries, or in other welfare industries. It was the recent threat by Salt Lake County to put these properties on the local tax rolls that prompted the Mormons to divulge the extent of their welfare activities-a revelation that quickly persuaded...
...Edge of History I said that there would likely be an invisible college surfacing in the '70s or '80s after the exhaustion of the protest movement, and I was surprised to see it come up faster than I expected. I was, however, thinking more in terms of a Cromwellian protectorate than a bunch of behavioral engineers round the world who would be trying to consolidate their power. The intriguing idea about the Club of Rome is its incredible sophistication as a prestige structure. They finesse the whole power situation by not even trying to go for power...
...England and in a way to A Cab at the Door. Pritchett's blustering father and droll mother come onstage for a final turn, somewhat better off financially but still squabbling, buying and selling inappropriate property, defying the blitz by moving into London. Both died in their 80s after the war. Probably out of modesty, he sketches his later life very lightly, discussing his novels and short stories briefly and barely mentioning both his career as critic for the New Statesman and the major study of Balzac he has worked on for years. Now approaching his parents' great...