Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moving behind the scenes, the Aga Khan had made a separate bid of $9.3 million to Boussac's receivers for 144 of the stable's horses, as well as $1.3 million for the Murty stock. Arguing that it was in the interest of Boussac's creditors to see the equine assets sold to the highest bidder, a bankruptcy court in Paris overturned the Murty deal, ordered the American to hand back his 56 horses to the receivers and told him to wait with other creditors for the return of his money...
...caused by OPEC's recent boosts in world oil prices, will have worked itself through the economy fairly soon. Even though more increases are expected this year, he says, "I don't think the news ahead of us on oil will be as grisly as the news behind us." Heller also expects some relief on the food front by summer, though the price of beef will continue to be hefty while cattlemen rebuild their still skimpy herds. At the same time, production of pork and poultry is increasing, there are abundant "carryover" supplies of corn and soybeans from...
...bagman. Reason dogged Carter across the country and the world carrying a familiar black bag, a.k.a. "the football," stuffed with necessary signal codes and target information in case the President had to order instant retaliation for a nuclear attack. Reason, who at 6 ft. 3 in. is easily visible behind his 5-ft, 9½-in. fellow Annapolis graduate, had to scramble last month when Carter, vacationing in Plains, slipped away to go fishing alone without informing anyone. The bagman is tossing in his football because if Reason ever expects to make admiral, he needs more sea duty. He leaves...
...heroine, Arlene (Susan Kingsley), is a reform school graduate just out from behind bars after serving eight years for prostitution, burglary and manslaughter. She is numbingly inert and on the run at the same time. Shaky, vulnerable and living off her psychological nerve ends, Arlene is determined to go straight...
...Arlene's most insidious enemy is her earlier self, the self she has tried to escape from in a nervous breakdown and attempted suicide. By means of slightly disconcerting but compelling asides, the light focuses on that earlier self, the juvenile delinquent "Arlie" (Pamela Reed). Even behind bars, Arlie is a rampant engine of malice. She trashes her food, throws screaming tantrums, fends off with barbed obscenities anyone who tries to help her. Yet some passing unseen chaplain anoints this child's dark, turbulent soul with the balm of the Scriptures...