Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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God willing, reports of the deposed shah's affliction with cancer are true.'' So said Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, with his customary generosity to a fallen foe. The reports were indeed correct. Last week Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, flew from his lavish, well-guarded home...
To combat his illness, he had been undergoing drug treatments supervised by a team of French doctors.
Terming the death penalty ''an occupational hazard'' in his line of work, Bishop refused to authorize an appeal of his case even when given the chance to do so minutes before entering the gas chamber. Said he: ''This is just one more step down...
Under normal circumstances, Exxon's report would have been cause for corporate chest puffing. But Chairman Clifford C. Garvin Jr. tried unpersuasively to accentuate the negative, arguing that earnings in the U.S. from refining and marketing ''continued to be depressed.''
The high earnings were due partly to special, unrepeatable circumstances. The third quarter of 1978 had been the worst three-month period in five years, and thus comparisons with this year's figures would show exaggerated growth. A July change in British tax law provided a onetime $200 million...