Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then, U.S. businessmen have managed to make do by exploiting Nicaragua's gold mines and controlling its benking industry. All brought to you through the courtesy of the Somoza government, which made exploitation easy. When things got hot, he declared all nine opposition parties illegal, including a tiny band of radicals who called themselves Sandinistas, and had their members arrested and tortured...
...tell it, film acting is not exactly work. "It's not too tough for me to act. It's much easier than what I've always done. You don't have to remember anything, to begin with. If you play Vegas you've got about an hour by yourself. You have to remember every cue, every song, every lyric. If it's no good, you can't do it again. That can't happen to a movie actor. The director says, 'Come in,' and you walk in. If you stay...
...International, a small, aggressive carrier that, like Pan Am, has received preliminary approval to merge with National from the Civil Aeronautics Board, holds about 25% of the stock. Eastern Air Lines has also been trying to gain control of National in a separate proceeding, but has so far not got a preliminary CAB decision on its application...
...Coupe De Ville also sweated off 900 lbs.; Chrysler stopped making any cars heavier than 4,000 lbs. last year. But Ford hung tough. Its 1979 Lincoln Mercury Continental Mark V weighed a defiant 4,779 lbs., was more than 19 ft. long and got 12 m.p.g. Now Ford, too, has yielded. The final Mark V, last of Detroit's gas-gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets...
...feel that he has committed "some unpardonable gaffe." Colleagues and publishers cannot be trusted: "Somebody's bound to say," he notes, " 'Well, we really can't ask Ryan to do this article or count on him to finish this book, because the poor bastard's got cancer.' " Later on, there are the unbearable pain and disfiguring side effects of powerful drugs. Cushing's syndrome, a side effect which Ryan suffered, is particularly excruciating. The face and neck bloat to enormous size, and a small hump appears on the back. "It is monstrous for Kathryn...