Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane depreciation (vs. about 15 years for most U.S. airlines). The rest, or about $450 million, will be financed externally. Says Pillay: "We shall approach the Export-Import Bank for about $360 million and get the rest from commercial U.S., European and Asian banks." If any part of the deal goes wrong, Pillay figures that he could get a loan from a "Middle Eastern country...
...abroad and their "mink-swathed" wives. The planners intended this symbolic Washington tea party to be a protest against an unfair tax policy. Complains Robert Worcester, co-chairman of the group: "An awful lot of people have gone back already, and the indecision by Congress is causing a great deal of anguish. People don't know what...
Says Schwartz: "I call that my 'burning bush' moment. I had read Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, which contains a great deal about Lincoln's physical characteristics." Suddenly everything connected. The Great Emancipator, Schwartz realized, was probably afflicted by Marfan's syndrome...
Still, their findings may deal the final blow to a proposal, heatedly debated since 1970, to triple the present amount of iron added to U.S. flour and breads. Americans now receive about 25% of their dietary iron from such products. The proposal has been endorsed by nutrition experts as a preventive against iron deficiency, especially in women. But hematologists, led by William Crosby of the La Jolla, Calif., Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, have steadily argued that on the basis of available information, an increase in iron is neither needed, effective nor safe...
...Brown, freshmen are currently assigned to faculty advisers, but "they never seek them after freshmen week," and upperclass counselors live in freshman dormitories, but they "are supposed to deal with everything, not just academics." Shaun D. Brown, president of Brown's student government, said yesterday...