Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year. Increasingly, people are buying art works as hedges against inflation and a weakening dollar. Art prices have risen to levels that even the least cultured brigand can appreciate. Says FBI Art Thefts Investigator Thomas McShane: "Thieves read about these prices and they realize they can cut themselves in on some very valuable booty...
...army's surrender to the revolution signaled not truce but further bloodshed. On the next day, Khomeini forces attacked the Lavizan barracks in northeastern Tehran, home of the crack Javidan guards, killing the commander and many of his troops. Using acetylene torches, the attackers cut their way through electrically locked doors to free prisoners at Evin, a jail run by the hated SAVAK secret police. There the liberators found electric whips, torture beds and other interrogation devices that justified many of the atrocity charges long leveled at SAVAK. Also attacked was the Shah's principal residence in north Tehran, Niavaran...
That force proved no match for the invaders, who were later identified by State Department experts as members of the left-wing Cherikhaye Fedaye Khalq (People's Sacrifice Guerrillas). Shortly after 10 a.m., the attackers cut loose with machine guns, pistols and automatic rifles from roof tops across the street. As the first volleys of the surprise attack hit the building, Sullivan and Colonel Leland Holland, the defense attache, took up a position at a command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from...
...bought Fortunata outright with the truck. Not so, said Giuseppe; Fortunata was just on loan. Seven times, Giuseppedrove to his father's to reclaim Fortunata. Seven times Carmelo went to his son's to retrieve her, paying Giuseppe $36 per retrieval. Finally, Carmelo moved to cut his losses: he took Fortunata to the town hall and married...
Little relief is in sight on the supply side. Of the 5.8 million bbl. of Iranian oil lay lost to the world, about 900 000 bbl normally come to the U.S. and provide 5% of its daily demand for 19.4 million bbl. Extra production by Arab countries has cut the oil deficit to 2 million bbl. per day globally and 500,000 bbl in the U.S. Saudi Arabia, for example, which is committed to pumping 8.5 milion bbl. per day, is now producing 9.5 million bbl. But the Saudis are tacking a 9% premium on that extra 1 million...