Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already some inadequacies in rapid economic growth-Iran's G.N.P. is currently expanding at an astounding rate of 50% a year-are becoming clear. The five-year plan by 1978 will create 2.1 million additional jobs. But there will be only 1.4 million Iranians qualified to fill them. That opens up the prospect of importing vast numbers of guest workers from other nations, as Western European powers do. Iranians are not sure they like the idea. There are sizable groups of foreigners in Iran already; the U.S. community, many members of which work on military-assistance programs...
...international airport requires 13 signatures from as many offices, a process that takes about three hours. A Tehran resident, complying with the law by paying an additional $1.20 tax assessment not long ago, had to try for nearly a month before he found the appropriate offices and could fill out the proper forms. "A thousand-rial [$13] bribe would have settled it in three minutes," he said bitterly...
Turner is the second chairman of the two-year-old ACSR and the second law professor to fill the post...
Meanwhile, House Speaker Carl Albert is the person who stands a heartbeat away from the Presidency. As it picks over the Rockefeller nomination, Congress might also consider ways of streamlining the confirmation process under the 25th Amendment. It was intended to fill a vacancy in the office of Vice President, not keep it open indefinitely...
...publicity campaigns are nothing new to Mobutu's 23 million subjects. Every night the television station in the capital city of Kinshasa begins its news with a vision of heavenly clouds slowly dividing. As sonorous music swells, a dark, bespectacled face topped with a leopardskin cap emerges to fill the screen. It is the visage of Mobutu, 44, also known as "le Guide," "le Clairvoyant," "le Redempteur." Without undue modesty, he has also chosen another name for himself that roughly translates as "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and will to win, will go from contest...