Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat's [59th] birthday. Let me congratulate you, and may God give you many years to live until 120." Sadat looked puzzled, so Begin explained that "until 120" was a traditional Jewish blessing for long life.* Begin was effusive in his praise of his host. "We all have deep admiration for you and your leadership," he exclaimed. "We all need you and your leadership. Egypt needs you; the Middle East needs you; the world needs you; and even we need...
...until the next day are we assured that it will be possible to cross into Burma in the company of a courier of the Karenni forces. The courier, when he appears, is smiling. On his left hand, set in a ring of soft orange gold, is a large, smooth, deep-green stone of jade...
...show quite as difficult to top. As chairman of the Reserve, Arthur Burns was final arbiter of the nation's money supply through eight of the most tumultuous years in economic history-years marred alternately, or sometimes simultaneously, by double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and deep recession. Though some of his actions helped to aggravate the economic maladies of the 70s. he became just as revered as Martin-and he was a far more complex bundle of professional and personal contradictions...
Pharaon, fluent in both French and English, likes to give himself the air of a combined cosmopolite and sharp businessman. He says his recreations are traveling and deep-sea fishing. He boasts that he was the first businessman to bring Korean workers to labor-short Saudi Arabia, and is now employing Taiwanese. Nonetheless, he has yet to win acceptance from the international financial community, and the price he is paying for control of Lance's bank is bound to raise money-men's eyebrows...
...president's mandate, described somewhat bizarrely by William Bundy, presidential search committee head, is to redesign Yale into "the Cadillac Seville of education"?still a luxury model, but smaller and presumably somewhat less costly to keep up. He must also restore harmony between faculty and administration, now deep in what Yale Historian Peter Gay claims is a "we and they" cold war, and calm town-gown tensions exacerbated by a blue-collar strike. He must also placate Old Blues disaffected partly by years of unvarnished rejection letters to their children...