Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence is not likely to produce the result that the Red Brigades seek. At week's end, every major Italian party, including the Communists, joined in a Rome rally to demonstrate solidarity against political violence and a determination to try to end Italy's raging epidemic of terrorism. So far this year, the tally of terrorist acts, from bombings to kneecappings to bank heists, stands at an astonishing 865 incidents...
...island has just two native-born doctors and one dentist (as well as only three lawyers). Asked whether the alcohol and VD problems could be solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...
...what the stations sold during the same month of 1978. Last week Texaco, Sun oil, Union and Exxon tightened their allocations still further, in the case of Exxon to 80% of the 1978 level. Thus, as summer progresses, drivers will find it increasingly difficult to buy gas toward the end of each month as service stations...
...changes to the car are essentially straightforward. Moody, an engineer, and Shetley, a car buff, made some aerodynamic changes in the body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...million. There are 19 hotels with a total of 7,139 rooms, and Carlson hopes to expand by 1,000 rooms a year. He opened a resort hotel a year ago in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Radisson Oasis, built near the Pyramids outside Cairo, will be finished by the end of 1979. Farther afield, Carlson is negotiating with the Chinese to build a hotel in Peking. He has a particularly active period of growth planned for two recently acquired restaurant chains, TGI Friday's and Country Kitchen. Carlson aims to increase the Victorian-style TGI Friday's from...