Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. Peter Stoler's "Exploring the Frontiers of the Mind," published Jan. 14, 1974, has won three: the National Association of Science Writers' Science-in-Society Award, the American Medical Association's magazine journalism award and a Special Achievement Plaque from the Deadline Club of Sigma Delta Chi. TIME'S Man of the Year cover on King Faisal has been recognized twice. For writing it, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb won the Loeb Award for business journalism (named for Financier Gerald Loeb, no kin to Marshall) and last week the John Hancock Award for business writing...
Outside Cairo, Sadat's power base includes the 'umdas, or mayors, of rural villages; bred in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat is as comfortable with local mayors as he is with sophisticated city dwellers. In fact, Sadat functions as if Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory...
...clothes that would sell themselves." The result has been perhaps the greatest turnaround in English tailoring since Beau Brummell first sported trousers instead of breeches. At a spring fashion show-the first in its history-the 200-member Federation of Merchant Tailors presented a new London look called "the Delta line." The collection consists of nearly 40 models for town, country, leisure, travel, the tropics, evening wear, and sports such as shooting, racing and golfing. It demonstrates, says Federation President Robert Bright, "that Savile Row could create a modern line without sacrificing traditional quality...
...introduced Harvard's new Delta 2000: "There's a good chance that something won't work on the computer while you're there visiting it, but I want you to know that only happens rarely...
Matadi, Zaire Republic--It was a six-hour trip up the Congo River. The first half was delta swamp with dense jungle and occasional mudflats where huge flocks of birds congregated. The second half was hills, cliifs, ravines, small huts wherever there was greenery, and lone fishermen paddling along the backwaters...