Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the characterization. "El Al--the airline with an attitude." Maybe they should put it on their commercials...
...President has won praise from such diverse people as Al Haig, a presidential contender who last year could not contain his contempt for Bush, and Cy Vance and Ed Muskie, both Secretaries of State for Jimmy Carter. "Our differences are minimal," confesses James Schlesinger, the clear-eyed Cabinet officer fired for candor by both Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter...
While he was consolidating his revolution at home, Khomeini was seeking to extend it to other nations. Iraq attacked Iran across the Shatt al-Arab in September 1980 after Khomeini called for an uprising of Iraqi Shi'ites and fomented skirmishes along the border. Iranian forces blunted the Iraqi offensive, and two months after the war began, the conflict was largely stalemated. After years of fighting, Tehran lost all hope of victory when Iraq stopped an Iranian drive for the port city of Basra in early 1987; a year later, Iraq began the offensive that eventually brought Iran...
...Deir al-Bahri. A 3,400-year-old tomb-and-temple complex near Luxor, it is threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...
...crowd picks through the offerings carefully, learning something about what makes Al Frank and Stan Weinstein and possibly also the market tick. They search for revealing new indicators or for an unknown face who has it all figured out (a hidden imam, in the jargon). They browse among new ideas, like one newsletter's espousal of the "butterfly effect," the chaos theory that a hurricane in the Caribbean may be caused by an unknown butterfly flapping its , wings six months earlier somewhere in Brazil, and that, by analogy, there are no hidden imams because it's all too complicated...