Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pressure-pumped Reggie Jackson supplied it, and why not? On Stanley's fourth pitch to Jackson--and the seventh and last of his brief relief stint--the Yankee slugger took a fastball out over the plate and sent it air-mail express to the centerfield bleachers--5-2 now, and climbing...
...brief civil war had worsened Nicaragua's troubled economic situation. Washington has cut off military aid and late last week the Senate chopped $8 million in economic assistance to Nicaragua from the $9.2 billion aid bill. The war triggered a panicky outflow of capital, at least $30 million, no small sum in a country with a G.N.P. of $2.1 billion...
...sadly, had lost 341 people, or 83%. Casualties ranged through all levels of Tabas' population. The governor of the town, Ali Mirinejad, 40, lost his wife, children and sister as their home collapsed around them. Mirinejad worked without sleep for the next four days coordinating relief operations; in a brief ceremony in the midst of the debris, the Shah decorated him with a medal for "bravery and tolerance." Said Iran's monarch: "This is the least we could...
...only member of the Board of Economists to predict a recession next year is Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank, and he foresees a mild and brief one. His forecast: real G.N.P. will drop 2.4% in the third quarter next year and 3.2% in the fourth quarter, but start back up in early 1980. Alan Greenspan, formerly President Ford's chief economic adviser, also sees a recession?but not until 1980, and then so gentle that it will just about meet the technical definition: two successive quarters of declines in real G.N.P...
...After brief stints at Claremont Men's College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With...