Word: controls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current period of crisis could still prove to be Iran's Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...strongly about the grim outlook in Iran. Says he: "We ought to go to our NATO allies and make certain that we are all together, and then we ought to sit down with the Russians and make it plain to them that having the Persian Gulf under the control of Communists is simply not acceptable...
...bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted a man hanging over the balcony of an Acapulco hotel screaming, "Help! My wife ran out of birth control pills...
...rooms, called "breakout rooms" by hotel officials, for discussions of particular topics. Delegates typically reassemble at a working lunch, a late-afternoon reception and a dinner, every day until check-out time. There is a growing tendency to pack convention schedules tightly, for reasons of both productivity and social control; organizers want to keep delegates present and working. not wandering off to see the sights on their own. Says Sig Front, a senior vice president at the Sheraton Corp.: "You're lucky if you have time to read a newspaper...
...Resorts had been a Wunderstock that had risen as high as $69.50 a share this summer. But after the report came out, it dropped almost eight points, closing the week at $23.62. The shares did not take more of a drubbing because even a negative ruling from the Casino Control Commission, which plans to begin hearings next month on granting Resorts a permanent license, could put several hundred million dollars in the company treasury. If Resorts lost its license, a state-appointed "conservator" would sell the casino and turn over the money to Resorts. The sale price would probably...