Word: catched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stave off the financial effects of turbulence. He is currently trying to arrange an eight year loan of $88 million from a consortium of U.S. banks which would, in the words of one American banker, "give the country a breather." The Nicaraguan government has promised banks that it would catch up on its current interest payments by March 31, from sales of coffee, cotton, meat, and sugar in the early part of the year that provides the majority of the country's revenue. Meanwhile, there has been talk of possible Sandanista intervention to prevent a good harvest which would help...
...three days, the 300,000 residents of the holy city of Qum had carefully scrubbed the dusty streets and minareted buildings, making ready for the Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly...
...received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast of The Goldsmith's Shop, a play in verse by Polish Dramatist Andrzej Jawien. That, it turned out, was the nom de plume John Paul had chosen in 1960, when as auxiliary bishop of Cracow he wrote the heavily symbolic study of three marriages...
Aside from its low credibility, the major obstacle remaining in the commission's path is the total absence of an investigative division to check the accuracy of disclosure information. As a Catch-22-style maneuver, the legislature authorized all but $35,000 of the commission's fiscal 1979 budget request, yet declined to create the investigative positions themselves. Gov. Edward J. King added to the commission's woes last Thursday when he proposed a $228,200 cut in its $631,350 budget request for the upcoming fiscal year...
...tangible place to start would be the loss of home ice. The problem here was not one of small crowds and no section 18, but of practice time. The icemen were forced to work out at haphazard hours of the day amd at multiple sites. What resulted from the catch-as-catch-can training was chaotic cohesion and execution during games...