Word: impendingness
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Rumors of its impending demise had been circulating for a decade. Legions of readers and advertisers had defected, pushing losses to intolerable levels. But the Washington Star gamely hung on, and in 1978 it got a reprieve: Time Inc. bought the paper for $20 million and pledged $60 million for...
The Israeli reaction was, naturally enough, pride in their military accomplishment. But there was not the same spontaneous celebration in the streets, for example, that greeted the July 1976 pinpoint Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe airfield. One reason was that as international criticism started to pour in, many...
Outside Israel?and even inside the country?there was an immediate suspicion that the raid and its timing had more to do with Israel's June 30 national election than with impending nuclear threats from the Iraqis. The six-month campaign between Begin's ruling Likud coalition and the opposition...
The first layoffs will come in less than a month, when the next fiscal year begins and 2 1/2 officially takes effect. In Cambridge, as many as 500 city workers and 300 teachers will be out of work; and every city program has had its budget slashed 25 per cent...
That summer Schatz started out as a Bloomingdale stockboy, got fed up, quit and then went to Washington to canvas for the equal rights amendment with the National Women's Political Caucus. His introduction to activism by way of feminist politicking, coupled with the news of the impending National March...