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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kremlin pride has apparently been hurt, moreover, by Carter's desire to give such problems as the Middle East and U.S. relations with the developing world as high or even higher priority than U.S.-Soviet ties. Under Kissinger, Moscow Indisputably held first place. To make matters worse, in Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Sadness the World Feels | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

The spy war intensified last week when the Soviets arrested F. Jay Crawford, 37, a Moscow representative of the International Harvester Co., and accused him of selling foreign currency to Soviet citizens at speculative prices-a charge that could cost him eight years in a forced-labor camp plus a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Episodes in a Looking-Glass War | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

UNFORTUNATELY, even if Breslin were in top form, which he isn't here, he would not be able to prevent the book from degenerating into a schlockish cops-and-robbers duel. Given the format--the authors were free to create interesting personalities for their fictionalized characters, but most of the...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Making a Killing | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

THE REST of the book, then, is the stuff of which B-movies are made: cardboard characters, dirty cops on the make, and lots of healthy, Type-O blood. Even those scenes that could have been meaningful, such as the portrayal of Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the scoop...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Making a Killing | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

State Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy predicts that 75,000 local employees will be fired statewide out of a total of 1.2 million, plus an additional 76,000 federally funded employees. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proposed layoffs of 8,300 city employees (out of 49,349), including 1,600 cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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