Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the troubles in Iran would be bad enough even if the country's oilfields were pumping as hard as ever. The reason is the collapsing Iranian market for Western goods and technology, which was illustrated by last week's cancellation of military sales contracts. Until recently, Iran was one of the nation's most important Third World markets, with imports from the U.S. jumping from just $769 million in 1973 to nearly $3.7 billion last year...
European and Japanese companies are also feeling the squeeze. In fact, because the economies of Western Europe are smaller, slower growing and more export oriented than that of the U.S., a number of countries could be quite hard hit. West Germany's economy is only half as large as the U.S.'s, but the country's exports to Iran last year reached nearly $3.4 billion, or almost as much as the U.S. figure...
...that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this was an improper use of Starr's assets, and that Starr had left out key information, such as the fact that Sitco was losing money, in its 10-K reports. These are reports to the SEC containing detailed financial information that must be submitted annually by nearly all public companies...
...four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...sorority system, well, that was an intellectual's animal house. Reminiscing in the Paris Review, Alumna Gates speaks with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent nonsense one would have to have the sensitivity of a John O'Hara, who seems...