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Word: accounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) room-by-room search through undergraduate dormitories has so far uncovered fewer than 50 refrigerators, and officials of the agency still cannot account for most of the 200 missing units...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: HSA Official Now Calls Theft Likely | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...lost a fortune thanks to his inept uncle, who has speculated away his inheritance. Strike one against the inanity of capitalism. Meanwhile the woman Belmondo pines for, acted by a ravishing Genevieve Bujold, has become engaged to a silly looking suitor who promises nothing but a fat checking account. Strike two. So what is a clearly superior gentleman to do about this unappreciative bourgeois system of values? Strike back, of course. The suitor's fortune rests on his family's jewels, so Belmondo lifts them. His career in crime has taken wing...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Robbed of Illusions | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...begin to set a price for natural gas, it must consider the legal precedents that have been handed down in literally thousands of federal court rulings. Then it must consider the strictures of the Administrative Procedure Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Finally, the agency must take into account the reaction of some 25 other federal bodies with some kind of jurisdiction over energy matters. In other words, the FPC has about as much room to maneuver as a trussed chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATION: Agency Without Friends | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...account, Philip Agee is no stranger to dirty tricks. The author of a 1975 book about the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Latin American activities, ex-agent Agee freely admitted his own role in bugging a foreign embassy and planting phony incriminating evidence on a leftist politician who was in disfavor with the CIA. Last week Agee, a resident of Britain for the past four years, claimed that he personally was the target of spookdom's latest dirty trick. Scotland Yard detectives knocked on the door of his Cambridge home and served him with a deportation letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back Out in the Cold | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...made in Vienna, is based on the Alexandre Dumas story of rival twin brothers, swashbuckling musketeers and beautiful maidens. Among the maidens is Dutch-born Sylvia Kristel, whose face and other features graced the 1974 soft-porn picture Emmanuelle. This time Sylvia keeps her shirt on, however, which might account for Rex's gentlemanly critique of his costar. "I admire Miss Kristel for her education," he says. "She is supposed to be almost a chartered accountant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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