Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stranger does not fully reconcile all his dreams and influences, it at least contrives to let them all exist well together. Under the direction of gifted Producer Phil Ramone, the new record has a harder, more astringent sound. Joel's lyrics can be lilting, wistful or full of bite...
Potential dangers exist in many parts of the world, especially where the ever expanding KGB is active. What if a revolutionary group with Soviet ties were plotting a coup against the government of Saudi Arabia, thereby threatening the world's oil supply? Surely the U.S. would need a clandestine force to support the legally constituted government and oppose such a disruptive act. Says former CIA Director Colby: "There really has to be something between a diplomatic protest and sending in the Marines...
...divorced from the quantity of gold that the country keeps in its vaults. As a result, the world's central banks now buy gold only rarely. Yet hard as several successive U.S. Administrations have tried to break the link between gold and the dollar, it still seems to exist, although in a reversed way; on certain days last month, the price of gold went up almost exactly as much as the price of the dollar, in terms of other currencies, declined...
...react in vastly different ways. The U.S. memory bank of World War II does not contain the traumatic wound dealt the Russians who suffered casualties in the millions at German hands. The valor, the burden and exhilaration of common sacrifice experienced in Russia during those years simply did not exist on the American home front. Thus the bruising flood of memory that Russians bring to Echelon can come from U.S. audiences only in spurts...
...Amin Dada, Uganda's self-appointed President for Life, addressing a crowd of supporters and newsmen: "I wanted to assure you that whatever has been said about violations of so-called human rights doesn't exist here. Since you came, how many people have you found dead...