Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other writings published only in the West cost Amalrik two terms in concentration camps and two stretches of Siberian exile. After his return a year ago from eastern Siberia, he was offered the choice of publicly repudiating his book or exile. Refusing to do either, he was placed under constant KGB surveillance, frequently picked up, interrogated and threatened. Finally he agreed to go West. His departure, originally scheduled for late June, was delayed when he balked at demands by the Soviet Ministry of Culture that he pay a $5,400 export duty on various art objects, including paintings...
...fading, the extent of increases in business spending this year is still uncertain. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, believes that business spending has lagged -largely because of the general uncertainty in recent years. Greenspan expects capital expenditures this year to increase about 5% in constant dollars over last year and says that "the 1977 capital investment outlook is exceptionally good." According to the Commerce Department's latest survey of business spending intentions, plant and equipment spending for all of 1976 should rise 7.3% above last year...
...soon as the Air France Airbus, which had been seized on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, landed in Uganda. Within 48 hours, the Mossad, Israel's CIA, had slipped three black undercover agents into Entebbe and two into Kampala, the nearby capital. They sent Jerusalem a constant flow of intelligence, including photographs, about what the terrorists were doing and how the Ugandan army was deployed. With this information, the Israelis, who helped build the airport a decade ago, constructed a full-scale updated model of Entebbe to train commandos for the raid...
Although Amin sometimes displays a peasant's earthy shrewdness-he was born into a poor farm family of the Kakwa tribe and dropped out of school after fourth grade-his impulsiveness and brutality have turned Uganda's economy into a shambles. There are constant shortages of goods, a rampant black market and soaring inflation (current rate: about 80% a year). He did not help the economy by expelling some 50,000 Asians in 1972, thereby depriving the country of most of its merchants, technicians and entrepreneurs. To keep Uganda economically afloat, Amin has toadied to oil-rich Arab...
...ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites, for example, build mounds with thick walls that keep the air inside at a constant temperature all year round. Some species of ants apparently share the human characteristic of using tools. Joan and Gary Fellers of the University of Maryland reported recently in Science that four species of ants seem to use pieces of leaf, mud and sand grains as tools to carry soft foods...