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Word: anyways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warned me, "We don't want any photographs," but as the Jeep backed through the crowd, I climbed aboard anyway. One man perched on the hood and fired his rifle into the air to clear the crowds as we careened the wrong way down a one-way street at full speed. As we neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...firm earn an average of more than $350,000 a year. Prominent attorneys in Atlanta are under federal investigation. Lawyer-agents drum up business at the Senior Bowl. Defections from a Chicago firm, a partner purge in New York. And how much will Bakke's lawyer be paid anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Playing Boswell to the Bar | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

With profound reluctance, the Wyoming legislature last week abandoned its drive to the end federally ordered 55-m.p.h speed limit. No matter. Most U.S. drivers laugh at the limit anyway. Meanwhile, homes and offices are overheated and empty skyscrapers are lit up like Christmas trees all night long. In short, five years after the Arab oil embargo, America remains a profligate consumer and waster of energy. If all the barrels of oil that the U.S. uses in just one day were laid end to end they would stretch the from New York to Calcutta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Still a Fuelish Paradise | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...drive down the metal's price and to improve the appalling U.S. balance of payments deficit. The auctions benefit the trade balance because gold sales to foreigners are counted as exports. The International Monetary Fund has also been conducting monthly auctions, but the dollar has kept plunging anyway. In fact, a key element of President Carter's November rescue plan, which finally succeeded in bringing at least the semblance of stability back to the dollar, was an agreement to double the amount of the Treasury's monthly auctions, to 1.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Boom in a Barbarous Relic | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...after it's all been sung and done, who really cares about originality anyway...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Two New Super Vocals | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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