Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, the area was alive with agents of SMERSH-the celebrated Soviet counterintelligence service. As the lady yelled "I am a foreigner!" to alert her Russian accomplice, who was lurking near by, the agents examined the stone she had left at the dead drop. Cleverly concealed inside were espionage instructions, miniature cameras, Soviet currency and gold. Most damning were two ampuls of a deadly poison. Peterson was charged with passing them to a Russian contact who allegedly had used the same poison in an earlier CIA plot to kill an innocent...
...Angola or Ethiopia, 16 were hesitantly raised. He asked how many of the students had friends who had been killed or wounded in Africa; by reflex, four students started to raise their hands. But University Vice Rector Fernando Rojas made an urgent, commanding gesture that caused all hands to drop. Cuban casualties in Africa is an extremely sensitive subject...
Even if he were not constantly having to drop everything to plead with some legislator over the fate of the energy bill, James Schlesinger would have his big hands full. The job of shaping up his seven-month-old Department of Energy is turning out to be just about as tough as moving President Carter's energy bill through Congress. Though DOE was set up to bring order, drive and direction to the uncoordinated activities of the 50 federal agencies involved in energy matters, Secretary Schlesinger's superagency has been sinking into a bureaucratic stupor...
Some states have lately begun to forbid property and casualty insurance companies to drop a policyholder for three years after he suffers a loss or accident. Going further, Metzenbaum is considering federal legislation forbidding insurance companies to cancel or refuse to renew policies unless a person runs up a long record of claims for mishaps that are his own fault. That would help to still the protests and make claimants feel that, whatever their bad luck, they were at least getting a fair shake...
...fast buying pace, largely by plunging into debt: installment debt rose a record $4 billion in March, $3.7 billion in April. But consumer-confidence surveys released last week by the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group in New York City, and the University of Michigan showed a sharp drop in plans for major purchases, mostly because many consumers think they will need every penny to cover basic living costs...