Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along these fine beaches, on a glorious spring weekend with the temperature well over the April average of 74°, there was the usual invasion of fraternity T shirts, beer chests and Frisbees, along with the reddening student bodies that came with them. There were young families from Texas and Oklahoma, and from as far away as Colorado. There was the weekly jetload of Canadians brought by Suntours of Toronto. And there was room enough in the sun for them...
Soviet Union. During a 1977 visit to Moscow by Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev proposed opening a Soviet consulate in Benghazi. Fine, said Gaddafi, Libya would like a consulate in Tashkent. "Why Tashkent?" asked Brezhnev. "Because I understand there are a lot of Muslims in that part of Russia," Gaddafi answered, "and I'd like to take care of them." Obviously unwilling to give the fiery Libyan a chance to arouse religious feelings among the Soviet Union's 50 million Muslims, the Kremlin leaders shelved the notion. The Muslims of the U.S.S.R. constitute a demographic time...
...spellbinding orator who conveyed the image of a populist reformer, Bhutto was the son of a wealthy landowner from Sind province. After earning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from Oxford, where he cultivated a taste for fine tailoring and vintage wines, he began his career as a delegate to the U.N. As Foreign Minister in the military government of General Muhammed Ayub Khan, he helped fashion Pakistan's policy of friendship with China. After his country's humiliating defeat in the war that led to independence for Bangladesh, Bhutto, who had quit the Cabinet...
...salary with New England: $45,000 in base pay, frequent TV appearances and football clinics worth an estimated $100,000 annually, a $250,000 paid-up life-insurance policy and a chance to play golf and give "motivational talks" to businessmen at $3,000 a shot. Fairbanks said fine, but then the Patriots spoiled the going-away party by asking the courts to hold him to his contract...
...company also bombards the public with advertising. To quote again from the annual report: "Advertising... is a fine way to carry on a dialogue with the public on topical issues. The Involved American Campaign of 1977, for example, appealed to citizens to take a stand on a number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government...