Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moscow's propaganda efforts were aimed principally at Britain and West Germany, the two keystone countries of the NATO scheme. After Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly supported the missile proposal, and skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly...
"You feel that you can never get caught up, that you always have something hanging over you. So you use alcohol to numb your brain so you don't think about it."
But international bankers find this money eminently spendable. If Exxon earns $100 million on sales in Europe and deposits it in a U.S. bank's Lon don branch, the money becomes Eurodollars, and the bank can lend it to some other company to build a plant in Turin or...
You've got to hand it to Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill. Well, actually you don't, if you've got a DEMS, or Diver Equivalent Manipulator System, developed for underwater work by General Electric. DEMS makes its movie debut in ''Raise the Titanic!''...
They all come together again after Israeli intelligence learns that Egypt is building a nuclear reactor in the western desert. The only solution, as the Israelis see it, is to obtain enough uranium to make their own bombs. The assignment is handed to Dickstein, whose cover is subsequently blown by...