Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the U.S. and the Russians buy, sell or manipulate nations as though they were pieces of cardboard. Iran was not ours to be "lost," any more than was Chi na or Viet Nam. President Carter is absolutely right when he stresses the limited capacity of the U.S. to control events abroad...
...Mexico, a wife now shares control of family assets...
Jones: It's too late. I can't control these people. They've gone with the guns. And it's too late...
...Peking late last week, Chairman Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) announced that the Chinese withdrawal had been completed. Hanoi, however, contended that Chinese troops still occupied sections of one Vietnamese border province. This point was supported by diplomats in the region who felt Peking wanted to maintain control of what had been "disputed territory" along the 735-mile frontier...
...action at once surprising and coherent, and, despite the relative poverty of his productions, the direction in each film is practically seamless. Nearly every scene appears to be the product of all the right decisions about where the camera should be and when it should move. Such ingenuity and control displays itself in ways that are embarrassing to name: the breathtaking efficiency, for instance, with which one character in Assault snaps a man's arm at the elbow; or the startling, gimmicky appearance, time and again, from out of nowhere, of the masked killer in Halloween, whose presence is signalled...