Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green's Anderson, who turned the hat trick, got his first goal with 20 seconds gone in the third quarter. Hagerty, unassisted, and middy Rick Carey, from Milliken, retaliated within the next four minutes to up the count...
...novels, seems to conclude on an even grander destructive note, namely the destruction of his own fictional universe. "I am cleansing and renewing myself for the very different sorts of years to come," he tells his creation, Kilgore Trout, when they meet at Midland City. "Under similar spiritual conditions, Count Tolstoy freed his serfs. Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves. I am going to set at liberty all the literary characters who have served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood...
...means to conjure up the myths of Roosevelt and Kennedy. But he accomplishes little with this powerful material beyond a few superficial parallels between the attitudes of the polio victim and the politician. The best of these comparisons suggests that both outwardly trust the advice of experts, but privately count on a miracle to solve their difficulties...
Unswerving American support is something that Israel may not be able to count on quite so heavily, however, in the new era of energy politics. At present, oil from Arab nations accounts for 7% of U.S. imports. By 1980, it could easily climb to 50%. Last week, as a sign of the sort of pressure that the U.S. can expect in the future, Saudi Arabia's Petroleum Minister, Ahmed Yaki Yamani, flatly refused to increase his country's oil production until the U.S. changes its policy toward Israel...
...believe that the company came through the ordeal with a tidy trading profit. More important, Amexco officers saw the succession of crises as an opportunity. They heavily advertised their 250 overseas offices (which handily outnumber the 127 U.S. embassies around the world) as a haven where tourists could count on turning unlimited amounts of dollar travelers checks into foreign money at reasonable exchange rates. Says Executive Vice President Brooks Banker: "When the world gets a little stormy, people look for stability...