Word: facedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Iranian leader left Iran in the face of protest that was threatening a government of which he was in control. If he had stayed and fought, an inevitable civil war would have ensued, leaving great human and material destruction. The Shah's departure saved more than his own neck...
Botha has a particularly difficult tune of it, since he must somehow obscure the ugly face of racist discrimination. But to translate apartheid as "good neighborliness" is the height of cynicism. One might as well refer to murder as "giving someone a well-deserved rest...
...people may think I am joking, but I am totally serious with my choice. He is Claude Ryan, the Liberal leader in the province of Quebec. Ryan has had to face the pressure of separatism, which threatened to break up one of the most politically stable countries in the world. If Canada stays together, it can thank Claude Ryan...
...applies only to commercial and public buildings, most cities enforce local laws requiring landlords to keep residential buildings at a minimal 68° by day and 55° by night. Scofflaws reported over the hotlines are generally given a day to adjust the thermostat before they face fines or jail sentences. "Our big club," says Chicago Building Department Director Nick Fera, "is that we can haul a landlord into court within 24 hours." That may not deter a landlord whose fuel bill exceeds income from his building. "In such cases," says William Moses, chairman of a New York landlords...
...terrace on Manhattan's East Side and a woman who comes in to tidy it up. She can afford to jet to the coast to see her sculptor whenever the mood hits her. Her routine is the stuff of beauty-salon fantasies: "Twice a day I treat my face with Erno Laszlo's special soaps and lotions. Once a month my legs are waxed by Mrs. Rugged at Elizabeth Arden. My hair is cut by Harry at Kenneth's and twice a year Marianne puts a series of blond streaks in it-wrap-ping the silky little...