Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vatican efforts to make amends included a public letter by the Pope on the anguish of the Holocaust. The process picked up at a vigorous working session in Rome the day before the papal meeting. Nine delegates of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations and nine Catholic representatives, mostly...
Controversy is nothing new to Simon, who once called the late Shah of Iran a "nut." Since he left Government in 1977, Simon has headed the U.S. Olympic Committee and co-organized a lay commission of free-market Roman Catholics who have challenged the liberal economic doctrines enunciated by American...
Noriega's cronies have also been suspected of drug trafficking. His personal aide, Colonel Julian Melo, was implicated in the operations of a large cocaine laboratory inside Panama; Melo was fired but not prosecuted. Last year Cesar Rodriguez, who had worked as a pilot for Noriega, was murdered in Colombia...
When mortgage rates climbed above 10% last spring, the number of new houses under construction headed for the basement. But last week the Commerce Department reported that housing starts edged up .9% in July, to an annual rate of 1.6 million units, the first monthly increase since February. "We expect...
Negroponte began raising funds for the Media Lab in 1980 with the help of Jerome Wiesner, former M.I.T. president. The two men sought out publishers, broadcasters and electronics manufacturers whose businesses were being transformed by the advent of VCRs, cable television and personal computers. Then they hinted broadly that the...