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Finley's rambling hour-long speech, part of the Writing Center lecture series, focused on the reasons a writer sits down to write something...
...hour-long question and answer session which followed the three prepared speeches focused on the causes of crime and the possibility of rehabilitating criminals...
...will face at least two major challenges: prompting more investment by edgy businessmen and forging a working relationship with Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board, which controls the nation's credit. Last week Carter's prospects for doing both brightened measurably. After an hour-long meeting in Washington with Burns, the President-elect reported that the chairman found his economic goals for 1977 "reasonable." Those goals are a 6% rise in real output, v. 3.8% in this year's third quarter, and a reduction of 1½ points in the unemployment rate, currently...
...year-old Emperor and Empress Nagako, 73, were lauded by a select audience of 7,500 in an hour-long ceremony at Tokyo's flower-bedecked Nihon Budokan (Martial Arts) Hall. In the half-century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled...
...during his hour-long tour Hammer remained the consummate businessman--even taking phone calls, one of them from Columbia's Soviet scholar and Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to arrange a meeting later that afternoon, presumably to discuss Soviet-American relations...