Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell the Shah five complete nuclear power plants (price: about $1.2 billion). The French also agreed to construct a subway in Teheran costing at least $600 million, a liquefied natural gas plant ($600 million), and a steel plant. They will construct twelve large tankers and help with a large-bore gas pipe line ($1.7 billion) and supply sophisticated military equipment. In return, the Shah has agreed to deposit $1 billion in the French central bank as an advance payment and increase Iran's shipments of oil to France. The advance payment will help the French narrow their trade deficit...
...agitation bore fruit at the ballot box. When a new CHUL was elected after the semester break, it voted unanimously to repeal the measure, and to set a 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio at Radcliffe. Anne L. Peretz, co-master of South House, said of the reversal, "I guess that people just don't like rocking the boat...
...both sides were diverse. Televised hearings would doubtless move even more slowly than the closed sessions. Both St. Clair and many committee members feel that the briefings presented by Counsel John Doar and Albert Jenner-as opposed to the interrogation of witnesses that is to come later-would quickly bore a television audience. St. Clair argues that the hearings are not "substantial" and would not hurt Nixon's case, while leaks of information are unfair to his position. Still retaining control of the committee, Chairman Rodino intends to pursue inquiries into such areas as the ITT and milk price...
...long day's journey into night. Stewart Alsop knew that he was soon to die; he bore the knowledge gallantly and wrote about it with unpitying candor...
...rest of the meetings consisted of a re-hash of all the platitudes of the past delivered mainly by the same kind of people (in some instances the same individuals) who have made the Urban Design Conferences of the past such a failure and bore. The new title and graphics did not fool anyone. While the previous Conferences were free, now the Dean at the Graduate School of Design was charging $100 per person--the only thing that...