Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, a contingent of eleven American and South Korean officers and security guards were escort ing five Korean workers while they trimmed foliage from a large poplar that partially blocked the view northward from an Allied guardhouse. At 10:45 a.m., according to the U.N. Command's subsequent account, a small group of North Koreans appeared at the site and demanded that the work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans suddenly swarmed...
...limits of the existing Bermuda agreement, the airlines of both nations are free to schedule as many flights as they think they can profitably fill. (American flights are subject to review by the Civil Aeronautics Board and the State Department.) U.S. carriers-Pan American, TWA and National-now account for some 60% of total airline capacity between the U.S. and Britain. The British want to change this mix to equal shares-not by increasing the number of their flights but by getting Washington to force U.S. airlines to cut back. The British thus want to replace the Bermuda agreement with...
...admits that during the several decades he spent in jail, he worked without letup at breaking out (succeeding three times). During the few years he spent at large, he thought about almost nothing but emptying banks (he succeeded an undisclosed number of times, but failed often enough to account for his years in the cooler). Sutton confesses to being unreformable, and does not pretend that the buffetings of fate made him that way. Having thus alarmed his readers, he goes on shamelessly to reveal that he is kind, brave, generous, loyal, patient, intelligent, well read, nonviolent, and courteous...
...film projects, however, account for three-fourths of Disney revenues and therefore generate the greatest excitement in the Disney organization. With Disneyland and Walt Disney World booming, the company is now moving on the biggest of Walt's ideas: EPCOT, or Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. To be built by the early 1980s in Florida as an expansion of Disney World, EPCOT will be a living laboratory of applied technology in transportation, housing, communications and waste disposal. Near it will rise the World Showcase, a permanent World's Fair. Still another theme park, Oriental Disneyland, now planned...
...worried well" and those with minor illnesses. Has life itself become a disease to be cured in the American culture? Some 80% of the doctor's work consists of treating minor complaints and giving reassurance. Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices. One out of four people is "emotionally tense" and worried about insomnia, fatigue, too much or too little appetite and ability to cope with modern life. At least 10% of the population suffer from some form of mental...