Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning to flow at a near normal rate from Iranian wells and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed to be holding fast, Washington policymakers and analysts were heatedly examining why the Carter Administration had been caught by surprise when violent riots swept Iran. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports...
Even before the riots, economic troubles were brewing. The quadrupling of oil prices in 1973-74 gave Iran many extra billions of dollars, but its heady expansion went too fast. By 1976 the government was borrowing against expected oil profits in order to spend nearly $50 billion a year on military hardware, port expansions, roads, railways, electric-power grids and new industries. Though supply bottlenecks were common, prices were soaring and commercial bribery was a fact of life, the crunch did not come until the weakening world demand for oil began cutting into funds that the government had already borrowed...
...margin would have been greater but for a bogus technical foul charged to Sims on a fast-break slam dunk. The muchmaligned zebra claimed that Sims had hung on the rim, thus nullifying his hoop and awarding Bentley a free throw at the other end, a three point transition...
...Bill Morrison's fast-break slamdunk and Eric William's 20-ft. jumper at the buzzer gave the home squad its sevenpoint cushion as the clubs broke for the lockerroom...
William Alfred, a member of the committee and William R. Keenan Jr. professor of English, said yesterday committee members "should not feel left out" of the decision process. "The theater is a funny business," he said. "When a really good person comes along, the administration has to move in fast and grab him. There isn't time for consultation...