Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar from my college days at Berkeley," says Jackson, who graduated in 1972 and served briefly in the Chicago bureau before arriving in Iran for temporary duty earlier this year. At one point he was threatened by knife-wielding youths but was helped by an Iranian woman. "An hour later," recalls Jackson, "I was sipping tea and peeling a tangerine, the guest of a gracious Iranian family who wanted to tell me their hopes for the future of their country." Such a sequence of events is illogical, but logic cannot be expected when you are covering a revolution...
...seems that part of the problem is that wages have risen because of union demands, while productivity has dropped. If people were paid for the work they did and not simply for time spent at their places of work, the degree of output per man-hour would rise tremendously because the workers would try to get more done...
...faces. They had been up much of the night, trying to deal with a bewildering series of crises around the world. the US ambassador in Afghanistan had been kidnapped and killed. The US embassy in Iran had been overrun by an armed mob, which held 70 Amercians captive for hour (see WORLD). Now a worried Jimmy Carter, flanked by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was off on an important state visit to Mexico. No sooner had he arrived there than President José LÓpez Portillo welcomed him with a public scolding...
Have fun. Be a big shot. Give your terminal degeneracy a two-hour boost. But don't expect "Plaza Suite," much less "Pi Eta Suite...
...scope of the war will broaden during the afternoon as the Crimson squash teams--men's varsity and JV--take to the courts at Hemenway at 2 p.m. At the same hour, Harvard and Yale athletes will also battle on a third front...