Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started it all was the new, young (then 28) and hotheaded ruler of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had seized power in a military coup the year before. Spurred by the instincts of Arab nationalism and pride, he rejected the prevailing royalty rates and launched a bitter, ten-month campaign for a better deal. Because the industrial world's appetite for fuel was and is insatiable, he was able to force the oil companies to increase Libya's oil royalties by 120% within two years-from $1.1 billion, or about $1 per barrel, in 1969 to $2.07 billion...
...money as working capital to allay fears of the school's worried trustees. Under his stewardship, the encyclopedia's sales zoomed during the next two decades from $3,000,000 to $125 million, netting the university $25 million in royalties. Benton was a staunch liberal and a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy in his Senate days (1949-53). An early UNESCO supporter, he ultimately served the organization as Lyndon Johnson's ambassador...
...prickly attitudes toward the Common Market, NATO and the Atlantic alliance. Though the centrists emerged with a disappointing 31 seats in the Assembly, the Gaullists have been suggesting that they might be offered a role in the new government. In a testy post-election TV appearance, Lecanuet made a bitter reply: "We ask nothing. You have no need of us." As the Gaullists study the election results, however, they might find that French voters do not agree...
fered and wept, that our life was bitter, and God will...
...very careful to keep them in the forefront of your mind." bed of "Making roses," war in a Marshall once democracy is noted. It no is tempting, reading Pogue's rich book, to speculate on how Marshall would have survived the democratic strains of another era - especially the bitter national divisions of the recent past. If he would not let one American die for Rhodes, could he have kept one from dying for Quang Tri or An Loc? The questions are unanswerable, though they reach toward one of the crucial is sues of Viet Nam - the extent to which...