Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important bills before the 263-member National Assembly, Soares' vote-shopping gambit has run into trouble. As one diplomatic observer put it: "The Socialists got a clear signal that a minority government is not a ma jority government." Adeline Amaro da Costa, deputy leader of the Social Democratic Center party, was more succinct. "We were giving our parties to the government," he said. "It was a kind of floating coalition, in which we submitted to something like alternate adultery...
...while. A skillful tactician, Scares secured support from Alvaro Cunhal's Communists on such important measures as regulating strikes, then turned around and gained the backing of Francisco Sa Carneiro's centrist Social Democrats (P.S.D.) and Diogo Freitas do Amaral's rightist Social Democratic Center (C.D.S.) on a Communist-opposed bill that permits the firing of workers for cause...
...ARTIFICE. Some of the new clothes looked as though they had come from a studio wardrobe, and their presentation was also theatrical. Pierre Cardin flew a group of journalists to Lyon, the center of the silk industry, where they viewed his new models at the modern Lyon-Satolas airport-an appropriate setting, since Cardin was one of the creators of the 1960s futuristic look. His collection this year included accordion-pleated capes, wasp-waisted gowns and bright, tiered skirts...
Cracked Open. Now the FBI has started a special computer-fraud program at its training center in Quantico, Va. Instructors have set up a model computer-controlled bank, complete with fictional account holders and loan applications, and they give the students only a few clues about what kinds of fraud might be involved. Next month the FBI school will begin giving its four-week training course to state and local policemen...
...visualize, but there is a specific technique for attacking, say, a 90° right turn. Approach down the extreme left. Brake and downshift from fourth to third. Brake and downshift third to second. Steady throttle. Now turn at an angle that touches the inside shoulder at the very center-the apex-of the corner. Accelerate out. Unwind the wheel. Breathe...