Word: est
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Signoret, Montand dictates to an unseen and unfeeling telephone operator a telegram of love to his mistress. The dialogue is hilarious, a reminder that Montand, the chanteur extraordinaire, is also a gifted actor and comedian, the star of such films as The Wages of Fear, Z and La Guerre Est Finie...
Late in the week, fighting continued a mile or two inside Iraqi territory to the east of Fish Lake, the site of an Iraqi victory a few days earlier (see box). The Iranians are still hoping to break through the Iraqi positions and advance quickly to Basra (est. pop. 500,000), an important oil center that lies 280 miles from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. But Iraqi officials suspected that the attacks in the vicinity of Basra might be a diversionary tactic aimed at distracting the Iraqis from a larger and more serious threat to the north. If the Iranians should...
...problem: it causes high American interest rates, which pull up rates around the world. At the summit, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Reagan that "the real impediment to productive investment is high interest rates," and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked: "How long can we wait until inter est rates come down?" Reagan replied that he was trying to reduce rates by trim ming deficits and even claimed that a balanced U.S. budget is "in sight." When? Treasury Secretary Regan later answered wryly: "President Reagan is a man of long vision...
...called the Catholicism of the university. People in universities seem to believe that no real, legitimate scholarly work can be done outside the hallowed halls. They believe that you're either a part of the academic world, or you're not. The university is the ecclesia, and execclesia non est salus--there is no salvation outside the university...
Harvard 113- 13-2 overall and the ECAC runner-upland and Wisconsin will also play tomorrow night (8.35 p.m EST at the Coliseum in the second game of the total goals series. Whichever team has racked up the must goals at the end of the "120 minute game" will head to Providence for the national semi finals at the Civic Center either Thursday or Friday. The finals and consolation follows on Saturday...