Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy program, outlined on Sunday, was to be fleshed out in two Monday speeches, in Kansas City and Detroit. The most immediate improvement that Carter could mention on the energy front came in the form of news from abroad, that Saudi Arabia had agreed to increase its pumping of crude oil by 1 million...
...keeps making preconditions that are difficult for the U.S. and the opposition junta to accept. He wants guarantees that his Liberal Party will survive as a Nicaraguan institution. More important, he insists that he be given assurances that his 12,000-man National Guard will be preserved, in one form or another, and that his chief subordinates, both military and civilian, will not be imprisoned or executed by the next government. Says one foreign observer who knows Nicaragua well: "Somoza is watching out for himself. If he doesn't get those guarantees for his Guard he might...
Many business people regard the tac tic as a form of secondary boycott and possibly illegal. Nonsense, says Rogers...
Reggae. No one really knows what it means. In interviews, most reggae stars define the word like Joe Higgs--the man who trained both Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and can claim with some legitimacy that he invented the music form. Reggae, Higgs said in a recent interview, is political. "Reggae means comin' from the people. Everdy t'ing, like from the ghetto. When you say reggae, you mean regular, majority. It means poverty, suffering...
...distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued; the harmful consequences become a form of self-punishment...