Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruno, that bundling bastion of gentlemanly grappling, revealed in a candid expose in Ft. Worth last Tuesday that when he finally throws in the crown and hangs up his multidimensional belt of heroes (for you newlyweds, his men's Worldwide Heavyweight title (he too will take the plunge, scalpelwise...
...game reflected our inexperience," captain Bill Griffen said yesterday. The team had a month of practice under its belt, with primary emphasis on riding skills and elementary mallet work...
...pieced together in London with representatives of the International Monetary Fund. The negotiations involve terms for a $3.9 billion loan that is to help tide over nearly bankrupt Britain until North Sea oil revenues relieve the current balance of payments crisis. Callaghan will probably have to promise further national belt tightening to gain the IMF credits-meaning, in all likelihood, an equally tight check on his government's freedom of action in the Commons...
...result, three major projects have languished. A $500 million hydroelectric power transmission line that is supposed to snake over 1,200 miles of forest and bush from the Zaïre River (once the Congo) to the copper belt in Shaba (formerly Katanga) is far behind schedule. Construction of a huge addition to the state-owned Gécamines copper mine, financed by the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Libyan government, is 18 months late. Work has stopped on the giant new Tenke-Fungurume copper mine, and international backers are handing over $750,000 a month just...
...opened a pilot production line in Moscow to try it out. Located in a corner of a large fish processing plant on the banks of the Moscow Canal, the line is a 60-ft. stretch of stainless-steel tanks, plunging pistons and gurgling agitators, ending in a conveyor belt that delivers small jars labeled CAVIAR-PROTEIN-FRESH. Although the facility turns out only 440 lbs. a day, bigger plants are on the drawing boards...