Word: everly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although some Administration spokesmen insist that the U.S. position is not intended to pick a fight with anyone, the internecine squabble has only served to mystify Europeans more than ever. At the least, the nation's allies rightly wonder what the U.S. has to get tough with in the first place. Moral questions aside, military action would be a tactical nightmare. Nor does the nation have much of an economic weapon against OPEC. Cut off grain exports? Argentina or even India could sell much, if not all, of the grain that OPEC needs. Embargo U.S. military equipment sales? France...
That estimate could prove low, and Firestone's product liability insurance coverage could be partly invalidated if it is proved that top management knew of and covered up the defects. None of the memos and records in Washington that Beaty saw hint that Firestone ever considered stopping production. The company just kept churning out the 500 tires; they just kept failing; customers kept returning them. And company lawyers just kept defending lawsuits brought by accident victims-and their heirs...
...growing flood of investment from overseas. Since it overwhelmed the leftist regime of Mrs. Srimavo Bandaranaike in the 1977 national elections, the government of President Junius Jayawardene has been chipping away at one of the most complicated and burdensome combinations of restrictive regulation and high taxation ever concocted by 20th century socialists...
Easy sex notwithstanding, more Americans than ever are opting for the traditional walk down the aisle. Still, there are many who want to make the Big Day more a spectacle than a ritual. To wit. Bride Annie Bowman who went topless in a Las Vegas showroom called the Jolly Trolley along with a kick line of 25 topless dancers doubling as bridesmaids. A Chicago disco was the setting for a Jewish ceremony with a fog machine filling the room with smoke at the very moment the couple broke the glasses. This week seven couples will tie the knot in front...
...painter ever traveled less in search of nourishment. Apart from trips to Versailles, Chardin may not have left Paris once in all his years. He was a completely metropolitan man, a fact that seems oddly at variance with his paintings, since, as Pierre Rosenberg remarks, "one would like to imagine Chardin a solitary individual, a provincial...