Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision, though, could be expensive for other oil companies. As many as 400 overcharging cases involving up to $4 billion still await resolution. One accused firm, Atlantic Richfield, agreed last week to pay the Government $315 million to satisfy such claims...
...politics out of smoke-filled rooms and into the chambers of the yearning human heart. Conventional political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await the next Huey Long. To take the measure of his threat, art will have to be shrewder and more sensitive than either of these movies...
Steiner gave no indication that his committeewould reform the internship program based on theSASC report or seek further Black South Africaninput, saying only that any judgements of theprogram should await its final implementation...
...strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...
When the soldiers left Cairo International Airport Wednesday evening, a quirk of fate saved Private First Class Eric Harrington of Lake City, Fla. The unhappy soldier could not find his passport, and he was sent back to Sharm el Sheikh to await this week's rotation home. His buddies departed on a 1,900- mile flight to Cologne, West Germany, where the DC-8 landed for a 90-minute refueling stop. Security there was described as tight. After a 2,700-mile Atlantic crossing, the plane touched down at Gander to refuel again for the final, 1,700-mile...