Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then why all the jitters over a possible break with the U.S.? Some experts maintain that the abrogation of the American defense commitment to Taiwan would result in a scenario in which an emboldened Peking would attempt to frighten foreign companies and investors away from the island by threatening economic reprisals or military action. "If some people are scared off," says one top government official, "the economic consequences for us could be disastrous...
...attack from the mainland. Taiwan's 500-plane air force, which includes advanced U.S. F-5E fighters, is considered superior to the mainland's obsolescent fleet; moreover, the Communists do not have the amphibious craft needed to land troops on the island. Still, a U.S. decision to break its formal ties with Taipei could be devastating to Taiwanese morale. But until it happens-if it does-there is no way of knowing just how serious the psychological blow to Taiwan will be if it loses, finally, its most powerful ally...
...with too many rough edges for anyone ever to smooth away. Something in me yearns for a settling of affairs, he said with his pale music and his tired movies; on the other hand, he answered with his rock 'n' roll and occasional blues, I may break away at any time...
...cannot tolerate obscenity. When he does a TV stint, Pryor must censor himself as he did in the years before his Las Vegas awakening. His friends, who think he should concentrate on movies, advised him against committing himself to the NBC series. Last spring Pryor tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes network brass as nervous as they make him, NBC is desperate for a hit. The Richard Pryor Show has been strategically placed in the same Tuesday night slot as ABC's Happy...
...sponsored by a feisty anti-oil consumer group called the Energy Action Committee, whose chief financial backer is Actor Paul Newman. One sequence portrays a U.S. oil executive mugging an American consumer, while disguised in a flowing Arab burnoose. The spot's message: "We'd better break up the oil monopoly before it breaks...