Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the violence in Iran's major cities worsened, Talbott and Brelis rushed back to the capital. By Friday, as dusk fell and a martial-law curfew threatened to cut off communications from their base at the Tehran Hilton, they gathered up their voluminous notes, typewriters and a store of candy bars for quick energy, and then headed for the nearby home of TIME'S Parviz Raein, where a telex was available. While Raein's wife, Sarieh, brought sustaining rounds of coffee and yogurt, the three men worked through the night, filing a barrage of reports...
BRITISH PETROLEUM, 51% owned by its government, raised operating profits 6% in 1977, but capital-gains taxes cut total net about 10%, to $531 million. In this year's first quarter, its earnings fell 44%, the probably temporary result of lower prices for North Sea crude and of marketing losses in Continental Europe. BP, which has total operating freedom from the politicians in Whitehall, has long emphasized crude production over marketing. The company produces the "blackest" barrel of oil in Europe-that with the largest proportion of low-profit heavy fuel-and early this year closed its biggest refinery...
...Harris fell four stories before he was able to grab another rope dangling nearby. The rope burned his hands, but he hung on as he slid down it. "I could see the hide coming off my hands," Harris said later, "but I figured if I held on I wouldn't be finished...
...Required meeting of Freshman eligible for Sophomore Standing, Science Center B. Boy, will this make you fell superior...
...forms, filling out a few more forms, and then running the gauntlet of representatives of undergraduate organizations who line the twisting path to the exit. Check them out and by all means take the free copy of The Crimson. It'll make good reading, and it'll make us fell better. You can to the whole thing in about 45 minutes, unless you get the infamous red dot on your registration packet, which means that something it amiss between you and the term bills office (the girm reapers who will clean you or your family...