Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the referendum, trouble broke out in Qum, where Khomeini, Sharietmadari and most of Iran's top Shi'ite leaders live. Several hundred Khomeini supporters gathered in the bazaar, shouting slogans against Sharietmadari, and then marched on his house. Among them were young men in black shirts, beating themselves with chain flails-the traditional Shi'ite expression of penitence...
...decline is largely a result of corporate overconfidence. In an effort to bolster the few weak spots on its schedule this fall, ABC broke one of TV's sacrosanct laws: it moved winning shows to new time periods. Such traditional Top Ten hits as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy have all suffered from being shifted. Some have at times fallen to the bottom half of the Nielsen chart. Made-for-TV movies and miniseries, usually a strength for ABC, have also proved poor draws this season...
...theory circulating in Washington goes like this: after the disaster in Vietnam, the U.S. grew so timid about flexing its muscles in the Third World that it lost the will and ability to defend "legitimate interests" there. As a result, when the Tehran mob broke traditional standards of international law and took the embassy occupants hostage, America felt powerless to respond. To avoid such embarassing nuisances in the future, the Pentagon's friends in Congress argue, the U.S. must develop a "quick-strike force" able to dump a motorized division anywhere in the Third World within 60 days. Congress approved...
...after repeatedly frustrating Wildcats forays in the first 20 minutes, Lau had no chance when UNH broke the deadlock and went out in front at 2:14 of the second session...
...several highlights in the meet came in the 880 when two Olympic hopefuls from Harvard, Paula Newnham and Johanna Forman, and sophomore Martha Clabby all broke the previous women's indoor school record. Newnham's record--shattering time of 2:09.3 shaved more than ten seconds off the old school best and skimmed a tenth of a second off of the ITT record...