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Word: bermudas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only nine countries in the world had an unblemished record: Austria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Fiji, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada and Costa Rica. The U.S. was not listed among them. Though not charged expressly with political repression, it is nonetheless criticized for the resumption in some states of the death penalty, which Amnesty International seeks to abolish everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: Price of Dissent | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Instead of going to Bermuda, a guy's going to buy a new pipe," Piper said...

Author: By Kenneth J. Ryan, | Title: Shoppers Hunting for Smaller Presents | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Ernest Merrill Flatts, Bermuda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...combat capability of the Soviet brigade on the island, it is the SR-71-the fastest, highest-flying and most elusive manned aircraft in existence. So fast does the sophisticated spy plane move that when a pilot starts a 180° turn over Cuba, he completes it halfway to Bermuda. By emitting ECM, or electronic countermeasure radio frequency signals, the Blackbird can efface its image from watching radar screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Blackbirds over Cuba | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billionaire Ludwig's Brazilian Gamble | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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