Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communication with the embassy, U.S. knowledge of the situation in Iran depended mostly on secondhand information, relayed by other diplomatic missions in Tehran or monitored from Iranian radio broadcasts. There thus was the chilling possibility that a daring rescue operation, after enormous risk, might reach the embassy only to find it empty...
Shale drillers know where to find their fuel, but they differ on the best way to get it out. Essentially, shale rock must be "cooked" at 900° F so that the kerogen can be vaporized and extracted. Two processes have been developed to do this...
...Three auto sales last month were down a jarring 23% from a year ago, and the industry has laid off 93,600 of its 765,400 hourly workers. Executive recruiters are receiving considerably fewer requests to find and hire managers...
Money to buy condos or co-ops is becoming costlier and harder to find, of course, but the impact of the squeeze has so far been modest. In Chicago, the Baird & Warner real estate firm reckons that October condo sales were 6% ahead of the same month last year, but prices have eased from an average of $93,000 in 1978 to about $85,000 today. In New York City, both demand and prices remain high, and luxury four-room apartments are selling for an average of $ 160,000, vs. $ 100,000 a year...
...generally shaking things up. Men at the very top are pressing this revolution. Even in the most encrusted industries, chief executives like Bethlehem Steel's Lewis Foy, Equitable Life's Coy Eklund, Du Font's Irving Shapiro and many others are telling their troops to find and hire and promote women. Resistance persists down in the middle-management trenches, but it is crumbling...