Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that ringing declaration, made at the University of Notre Dame last May, Jimmy Carter might have added "You can depend on it!" In his half-year in office, the President has gone far toward creating a new American foreign policy, both in content and conduct. He has tirelessly emphasized ?some might say preached?the virtues of open diplomacy and moral principles as a substitute for what he contends was the often secretive and sometimes amoral Realpolitik of the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger years. He has spent an extraordinary amount of time on foreign affairs and has made more news...
...worrying about the quality of his renowned humor: he sees certain friends more regularly these days and so finds himself repeating jokes. He is also more convinced than ever that the most remarkable spectacle of recent years is this old lady called the United States of America, who has gone through a season of travail, who faces many immense problems ahead, but who in the summer of 1977 sits mellow and fortified from sea to sinning sea. Now get Tyler out of the pool, please...
Many nights after most employees had gone home, the main computer at Sperry Univac's office near Philadelphia continued to hum. Two programming supervisors, David E. Kelly and Matthew Palmer Jr., had taught the machine to store and print complicated arrangements for musical groups, which the two then peddled to stores and bands. In the course of three years, the entrepreneurs bilked Sperry Univac out of some $144,000 in computer time. And they might never have been caught if another employee had not informed on them...
...abundant harvests, especially in Brazil, which produces one-third of the world's coffee. What sent prices up in the first place was a freak frost in 1975 that damaged more than half of Brazil's coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further decline in prices, and have been selling their...
...return, the gondolier was supposed to devote himself to writing. No volumes appeared. In the fall of 1913, his sponsors gone and his vessel ship wrecked, still promising great projects, Rolfe died alone in his Venice flat...