Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residence, two boys with flashlights offered to escort people up the stairs at $1 each. Some cabbies cruised with their off-duty lights on, trying to negotiate high-priced deals, charging as much as $50 for the trip from Shea Stadium to Manhattan, which normally costs about $10. Cold cans of beer and soda went for $3 in Forest Hills, Queens. An ice-cream vendor in Greenwich Village did a brisk business. As the temperature in his refrigerated case dropped, so did his prices?until he finally gave away free but slightly soggy cones...
Halperin started her college career wanting to be a doctor, but quit after taking organic chemistry to pursue an independent major in women's studies and psychology. "Organic knocked me off the pre-med track--it seemed so cold and technically-oriented," she said. "I'd always viewed medicine as an essentially human science...
...Arab commitment to "full diplomatic relations" with Israel as part of a Middle Eastern peace settlement (see following story). But the President's chief problem was new tension in U.S.-Soviet relations, a war of nerves that led some Western diplomats in Moscow to wonder aloud whether the cold war might resume...
...home-and it no longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...
When Revel's book was first published in France last year, many outraged intellectuals accused him of reviving the cold war. To Revel, a man of the non-Communist left, that accusation is a radical illusion; the war has never ceased. Stalinism, he insists, is no aberration, but the very essence of Communism. Without the kind of terror and oppression perfected in Moscow, every Communist government would collapse. Thus when any radical leftist regime comes to power, it suspends individual rights and forbids a genuine opposition...