Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cecil B. DeMille," cracked one Western visitor, "eat your heart out!" For five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen gathered in the city of Kaduna for one of the biggest celebrations in the history of northern Nigeria. On hand to watch it were eight visiting heads of state; their Nigerian host, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo; and Andrew Young, Washington's new U.N. ambassador. Concluding his African odyssey, Young reached Nigeria in time to catch the finale of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture...
...surplus-an abundance of public suspicion that natural-gas producers are holding down production to force prices up. In response to this feeling, several Government investigations were called last week to determine to what extent, if any, producers are deliberately withholding gas from the market. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus sent a six-man team of investigators to Metairie, La., to examine the records of four offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico that have reported sharp production declines. Says Andrus: "If it appears that gas has been withheld, then we will move into a larger investigation." A House commerce subcommittee...
Other Cabinet officers have taken the initiative that Carter urged on them. To shift fuel faster to the Eastern part of the country, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal waived the law requiring domestic ships to carry cargo between U.S. ports. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus urged the Governors of twelve states battered by the winter to ask his department for help. Housing and Urban Development announced an emergency policy of aid to low-income-housing residents who are threatened with eviction or loss of utilities...
...only beans were like professors. Then they could go on leave and we'd see how much we miss them. After all, where would green, kidney, jelly, franks and, lima, chili and Orson be without beans backing them up? Or how about bag, ball, pole, stalk or Cecil without beans leading the way? Jack and the Stalk just wouldn't have made...
Under the British Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, the British government altered the terms of Cecil Rhodes's will to allow women to compete for the scholarship his legacy endows. Thirteen of this year's 32 total winners are women...