Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Said's article on Orientalism came like a breath of fresh air. It is high time that the American press stopped depicting Muslim Arabs as greedy desert bandits or cold-blooded terrorists...
...Button Machinist Betty Poynton confessed, after Thatcher's visit to her shop floor: "I don't fancy a woman as Prime Minister. It's a fellow's job." Others may well agree. Thatcher, however, thinks her sex may be an advantage. "There's an air of excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection, the woman whom the Russians have dubbed "the Iron Lady" summed herself up by saying: "I am what I am-it's the whole...
...army after the revolution, Gharani had been fired from his post in March after his harsh campaign against Kurdish rebels in Sanandaj; nonetheless, he was given full military honors. During the funeral procession, which drew a throng of 50,000 mourners, security guards seized a young man in an air force uniform who was running toward Bazargan with a hand grenade and an Uzi automatic. The government denied that there had been an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister. Eyewitnesses thought otherwise...
...there such diversity on TV, a medium notorious for the numbing, copycat sameness of so many of its programs? Yes-for those viewers whose sets are hooked up not to antennas that pull TV signals out of the air, but to cables that transmit images and sound over as many as 36 channels in the way that the telephone wires running alongside those cables carry phone calls...
...atypical fashion of "negotiating through strength," is deploying the new Trident submarine; the projected ten Tridents will cost the taxpayer about $20 billion. Additional systems, under consideration as "bargaining chips" to obtain Senate ratification of SALT, are the MX ICBM at $30-50 billion, and several thousand air-launched cruise missiles at $30 billion...