Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's the endless gas battle "I never thought," said Senator Russell Long, in an appropriate tone of disbelief, "the conferees could take a House bill favored by the consumers, and a Senate bill favored by the producers, and work out a fiasco opposed by both. But they have clearly succeeded in doing...
...story; the heroine's psychic powers have no bearing on the solution of the murder case. Laura Mars quickly devolves into a prosaic whodunit with a gyp of an ending. What could have been a classy thriller like Klute or Don't Look Now seems instead an endless episode of Charlie's Angels...
...Jimmy Carter, the presidency must sometimes seem like an endless series of tests in which he is asked to prove that he is capable of leading the nation. In foreign policy particularly, the rambunctious 95th Congress is determined to judge every use of the authority that the Constitution grants him. Last week the Administration underwent two of these trials?on Turkey and Rhodesia?and while the results were mixed, Carter earned passing grades for leadership. But coming up this week: a new exam on foreign...
...scurrilous charges," Peking answered that Viet Nam had "ostracized, persecuted and expelled Chinese residents on a mass scale." To prove that charge, government officials organized press conferences for foreign newsmen in border areas where Hoa refugees were living in improvised camps. Meanwhile, China's official propaganda machine ground out endless grim tales. An old woman from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) recounted how all her possessions had been seized. "Not even her wardrobe, beds, stools, bowls and saucers were spared," according to one report. She was also threatened with resettlement in one of the "new economic zones" where Hanoi...
This activity is part of the explosive growth of the microelectronics industry, which since 1963 has transformed Santa Clara County, whose heart is Silicon Valley, from a bucolic orchard to a crazy quilt of low-slung buildings and endless seams of freeway. Electronics sales are rising 14% annually and will reach an expected $66 billion this year; 10% of the total volume comes from Silicon Valley. Partly because of a post-Viet Nam decline in trained electronics workers coming out of the military, the valley's personnel officers are searching to fill an estimated 5,000 openings...