Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one, you can abide by it. Two: Always postpone any deadline-for a week, a day, or even half an hour. Who knows, the situation may change in your favor if only you have the patience to wait. Three: Divide and conquer -both your foes and friends. Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you. Four: Every man has his price...
...operating divisions, the most glittering is the recreational group. It supervises the hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Reno and the Bahamas. Summa's communications group supervises KLAS-TV and the Hughes Television Network Inc., which connects stations across the country for special programs. (Coming up: a two-hour Bicentennial extravaganza...
...Finest Hour. With her occasional bias of the 1960s, Kearns tends to belittle L.B. J.'s politics of consensus. But she understands that consensus was needed after John Kennedy's assassination and that Johnson provided it in what was his finest hour. Reaching the presidency on that grim November day was no joy to Johnson, as he explained: "For millions of Americans, I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne. And then there was Texas, my home, the home of both the murder and the murder of the murderer...
...Rome's worst week of political agitation in a year. Bands of leftist youths went on a two-hour rampage to protest the death of a radical youth during an earlier demonstration. Striking metalworkers, demanding higher pay, locked arms in Rome's Piazza Navona and with rhythmic solidarity chanted, "Governo Moro, te ne devi andá-da" ("Governo Moro, you've got to go-go"). Premier Aldo Moro's shaky Christian Democratic minority government was then more directly threatened by the 20,000 Italian feminists who poured through Rome demanding that the country's tough...
...company has also developed techniques to decrease costly "bounce" dives-twelve hours of on-deck decompression for every half-hour on the ocean floor. Descending in a pressurized diving bell, an Oceaneering diver can work underwater shifts of four hours or more with only four days off out of every 15 for decompression. Another innovation: an experimental suit that encases a diver in normal atmospheric pressure at great depths, thus eliminating the need for decompression altogether...