Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's 830 dailies (combined circulation 9,436,000). Indeed, no major paper has shown defiance, including those owned by powerful businessmen who have in the past opposed Indira Gandhi. Only two newsmen, K.R. Malkani, editor of the right-wing Motherland, and Kuldip Nayar, editor of the Indian Express, have been imprisoned. But little change in news coverage has actually occurred because Indian journalists have traditionally depended on government press releases for most of their information. In the past, dissent has only appeared in editorials or in reports of speeches by opposition leaders...
...other Iranian officials that all proposed foreign loans are "under review." Despite high oil prices, slackened world demand cut Iran's petroleum revenue by $4 billion last year, to $16 billion, and Iranian Ministries are jostling to grab all available funds for domestic development projects. Privately, Iranians also express worry about Pan Am's first-quarter loss of $59 million. "There was never any commitment on the part of Iran," says Hushang Ansary, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, who had helped draw up the loan plan with...
...million-dollar, three-picture deal with Universal, he collects only $75 a week from his business manager. "I have no possessions," he says. "I don't own this apartment, I have no car or country place, and I do not wish to have anything except my American Express card, which means I can escape. But I still spend a lot of time at home. I work on developing my imagination between 12 and 4 a.m. I just sit at my desk and think. I don't really need to dance any more. Dancing is only part of what...
Even Paris-based Kenzo Takada, whose Chinese-inspired collection helped start fashion's current Orient Express rolling last spring, concentrated at first on supple, sensuous clothes with a low hip line. The Japanese-born Kenzo noted that his styles "had affinities with the Chinese look, so we carried on the Chinese line." Among the first U.S. designers to introduce proletarian posh was Cinnamon Wear's Britta, whose workers' drop-shouldered jackets and raincoats flopped like wet rice when they came out last year; now the firm has trouble keeping up with demand...
Today few would express such euphoria, but many economists, politicians and philosophers propose various solutions to the troubles in the system...