Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat apparently withstood the new pressure. After a four-hour talk with "my friend Gromyko," Sadat announced that they were agreed only on an "early" resumption of Geneva talks. Meanwhile, Sadat held to his determination to deal first step by step with "my friend Henry." Sadat, however, may feel new pressures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who, Gromyko said, intends to visit Cairo "shortly...
...crises bled Black's empire: hurricanes wrecked Honduran banana plantations, Central American governments imposed heavy export taxes, and the cost of feeding cattle skyrocketed. Since November, when United Brands reported losing over $40 million in the year's first three quarters, Black had worked 16-to 18-hour days...
...series that may turn out to be a television rarity- a work of genuine historic importance - Arabs and Israelis (PBS, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) presents itself with almost recessive, if becoming, modesty. Its eight programs run only half an hour each; there is not the slightest hint of showmanship about them. Essentially they are nothing more than interviews with ordinary citizens of the nations locked in permanent cri sis in the Middle East for a quarter of a century...
Some 700 people packed the Gardner Auditorium galleries for each of two three-hour sessions, in which discussion focused on two bills limiting the possession of handguns to the police...
...kinds of scenes--a sudden barrage of machine-gun fire rips open a quiet evening, the Don deals with his petitioners like a medieval monarch receiving his subjects--but they don't follow in a neat sequence. Instead, Coppola strings them out for more than three and a half hours and, although everything is wrapped up by the end, whole plot lines must be allowed to lapse lot as long as an hour...