Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darkening sky over hot, humid Alexandria a crescent moon glided toward the evening star, a pattern suggesting an Islamic flag. When U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in that ancient Mediterranean city last week, few could imagine that Ramadan's omen of peace and tranquillity would bear fruit. Yet by the time Vance took off for Washington two days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to attend a trilateral summit meeting on Sept. 5 at Camp David...
...week at 12.5. But experts applauded the decision. Said Arvid Jouppi, a top Detroit analyst: "Chrysler's strategy is to become strong domestically and abandon the world market. I would rather have 15% of a strong company like Peugeot than overseas assets that were too heavy to bear...
...Ustinov, not to mention generations of statesmen, artists and thinkers, somehow emerged with originality unchecked. There is scarcely a field of public endeavor in the English-speaking world that does not bear traces of the public school imprint. Fighting oppressions as youths may have strengthened the graduates for the larger trials provided by life. Above all, the schools seem to have given their charges a sense of belonging together, a memory of childhood that they shared with their peers and never forgot. - Paul Gray
...which has made record profits on its 727s, had the financial strength to design a totally new jet. Following its successful practice of creating entire families of aircraft with interchangeable parts, Boeing now has three new-generation planes in various stages of development: the 757, 767 and 777. All bear a striking resemblance-long "supercritical" wings and huge bypass engines-but the 757 is a narrow-bodied aircraft, designed to replace the DC-9 and 727 on short and medium routes. The 767 and 777 are virtually identical wide bodies, except that the latter has three engines...
...Giving a name," Thomas Carlyle once said, "is a poetic art." Perhaps, but it can also be a trying one. Item: Retreating before the distemper of feminists who do not like all hurricanes to bear women's names, Government meteorologists this year will christen storms not only Aletta but Bud and Daniel and Fico. Item: A national chain, Sambo's Restaurants, has run into stern resistance in New England, where civil rights groups are trying to ban the name because of allegedly racist overtones. Item: A young man who asked a Minnesota court to change his name...