Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the group, who called himself Captain Rafat, was later identified as Ali Taha, 34, a onetime Jerusalem tour guide and seasoned skyjacker. In 1968 he helped divert an El Al jet to Algeria, and two years later participated in one of the fedayeen's most spectacular feats: the simultaneous skyjacking of three jets to the Jordanian desert...
...movie may eventually earn $80 million in profits for G. & W. At the same time, G. & W. has another smash, Love Story, that will bring in an additional $16 million this fiscal year. Other promising films are in the works: a sequel to The Godfather, The Great Gatsby with Ali MacGraw, and, improbable as it seems, Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich...
...Ali and Nino by Kurban Said (Pocket...
Mathematically, it was an impressive finesse. Equivalent perhaps in the game of corporate diplomacy to the Ali Shuffle. Relaxed and confident during the press conference in which the decision was first announced. Bok enumerated the constructive trade-offs implemented by the Corporation's decision with all of the rational enthusiasm of a Plimptonesque first-timer. Confronted with a sticky wicket, he had nonetheless prevailed. But as Bok discovered when the call came at dawn Thursday morning, there were people who were not impressed by Harvard's corporate shuffle. Throughout that day and into the next, a steady stream of people...
There was, however, a prefatory harangue from the Filmmaker. Before finding a real glass to replace the plastic cup he had brought to hold his Old Forrester and ice, he had essayed to warm up the audience with imitation of Muhammed Ali...