Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Security Council, the U.S. vetoed Viet Nam's membership bid. Last week the question came up again in the General Assembly. U.S. Ambassador William Scranton conceded that the Vietnamese probably cannot account for all the missing Americans, but still insisted that Hanoi was not doing enough to assuage "the anguish of the families of these...
...greatest potential area of competition is, of course, sports betting, which accounts for 90% of the action currently handled by illegal bookies ?despite the old gambler's adage, "Never bet on anything that talks." It has been called the "big button." Delaware recently became the first state to start a football lottery. Called Touchdown, it takes into account the point spread between opposing teams, just as the bookies do. In brief, that means that somebody betting on, say, the Seattle Seahawks, who are rated nine-point underdogs, wins if Seattle wins, or even if Seattle loses by eight points...
...cards this year will go through the U.S. mail with about 3 billion others. The $20 or so I spent on cards-$5 above the national average-will be mixed in with $750 million spent by other Americans, plus $390 million for postage at 13? a lick; stamps account for more than half the 25? spent (on average) per card by every sender. The statistics are industry guesses. Only three of the 51 members of the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers are publicly held companies that report financial data; the others are closely held, including Kansas City-based Hallmark...
...evidence of William F. Buckley Jr.'s account of his life afloat, it can be categorically stated that the author neither now nor ever has believed that the earth is flat...
Airborne is both an immensely pleasurable, digressionary account of an Atlantic crossing and an unashamed celebration of the good life in anything but the best of times. (One of the crew aboard Cyrano even had to leave the idyl to attend the dissolution of his failed business.) About himself and his class of sailing friends, Buckley writes: "We never fancied ourselves as 'everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Rather as a different generation of 'successors,' anticipated by Joseph Conrad as 'the grown-up children of a discontented earth...