Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine months of 1977, Quebec suffered a net loss of 30,622 people. Some nervous English Quebeckers who decided to stay deposited their savings at banks in such U.S. border cities as Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt. Last month a major uproar broke out when Canada's largest life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance Co. (assets: $5.5 billion), announced that it was moving its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. After urgent personal pleas from Prime Minister Trudeau, Sun Life officials said that the firm and its 1,800 head-office employees would stay?for two more years...
...major fire broke out in a storage room in Boston University's chemistry department, severely damaging the third and fourth floors of B.U.'s Stone Science Building...
...fire broke out about midnight, about 30 minutes after a smaller blaze which devastated the basement annex of B.U.'s Mugar Library. During the science building fire, a B.U. dormitory on Commonwealth Ave. received a bomb threat...
...Soviet predecessors of 954 broke up on re-entering the atmosphere in 1973 and fell into the Pacific north of Japan. Two Russian moon-bound craft, which used radioactive fuels to heat their capsules, went into earth orbit in 1969, but dropped back into the atmosphere and burned out with some release of detected high-altitude radiation...
...hosts may not have been paying much attention to her, she had obviously been listening to them. Back in Peking, she told French Premier Barre that China regarded Cambodia as a victim of "Vietnamese aggression"-the first open swipe at Hanoi heard in the Chinese capital since the war broke out in December...