Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ceauşescu's five brothers, Ilie is a major general, Ion is a deputy minister of agriculture, Marin is a counsel at the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, and Florea is a senior editorial writer for the party newspaper, Scinteia. His brother Nicolae (in Rumania, brothers sometimes have the same first name) is consul-general in Kiev...
...very deceptive movie. Shot in black and white (actually in a rich variety of grays painstakingly rendered by Cinematographer Gordon Willis), it announces at once that it intends to be different from the general run of movies. Still, the picture induces howls of laughter in the opening reels, raising expectations that we are again simply going to see the superb comic character whom Allen has been developing since the early '60s. After a while, however, the raucousness dies down. The movie never ceases to be funny, but it starts to be something more. In the end, by administering a series...
...enterprises are much more efficient, innovative and market-oriented than those of the Chinese. A leading Hong Kong businessman, having returned from a tour of mainland factories, estimates that a Chinese factory as a whole is only one-seventh as efficient as one in Hong Kong. The general bullishness is summed up by Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, 79, a Hong Kong-born multimillionaire, who is negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province. As he gazes out at Hong Kong's beautiful harbor...
...weeks on end." But if there is a strike, which company would be the target? Union representatives believe that Chrysler is too weak financially to weather a major stoppage. Ford was the target of the last strike, which lasted 28 days in 1976. So it might be General Motors' turn to take the heat...
Gibbens said the screening committee to fill the post includes himself; David A. Aloian '49, general secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni; and Howard F. Gillette '35, assistant to the vice president for alumni affairs and development