Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...
...those "uppity, bloodthirsty, macho, white males" who happen to love meat. I admit that occasionally I get a feeling of guilt mixed with nausea. But then my good sense returns, and I enjoy my meal of medium rare, juicy animal protein source...
...courtroom arguments in favor of drilling, no one knows how much oil can really be tapped from the shoals of Georges Bank. But even oil industry experts admit that the yield from the tracts to be auctioned will probably be far less than from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay or the Gulf of Mexico. Best guess: 123 million Barrels over the 20-year lease period. Brought up in a single haul, that would provide the U.S. with only about one week's supply of oil. If not oil, then natural gas could be drawn from Georges Bank...
...difficult to state the real level of inflation, Eastern style. Even those governments that admit to a low level of "inflation" cook the books and obscure the situation with huge state subsidies that hold down prices of certain essentials. The Soviet Union will spend about $31 billion this year to restrain the retail price of food; frozen turkey sells at $1.81 per lb. and milk at 20? a pint. It will also spend $7.5 billion to hold average monthly electricity and heating bills to $4.50 and the monthly rent for a standard three-room apartment...
Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler...