Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This "discontent" is difficult to define, but you can feel it as you walk down Didouche Mourade, the main boulevard in Algiers. Packs of young men sit on the iron rails that line the street. Many do not have money because they are unemployed, unequipped with the technical skills Algeria needs so badly. Ten years ago unemployment was worse but easier to tolerate, because everybody else was either unemployed or poor. Now it is harder to bear because there are so many flashy new state institutions. Algeria is richer than the Algerians, and many Algerians know...
Holcombe and Richard Coleman, attorney for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, met yesterday with Powers to iron out the final provisions of the leave...
Over 80 per cent of Angola's exports were sold in unprocessed form in 1973, mostly petroleum ($230 million), coffee ($205 million), diamonds ($80 million) and iron ore ($49 million). The major industry is all foreign owned. Gulf produces the petroleum; most of the coffee plantations are Portuguese, but they sell almost entirely to large American companies; diamonds are produced by Diamang, a South African, British and Portuguese consortium. Even the main railroad, which runs from Lobito to Zaire, is British and South African owned...
...University of Pennsylvania, Ivy champs, upset highly touted New York University, which finished second, and took home the tradition laden "little iron man" trophy...
That was hardly enough to maintain the Vidal style, much less Edgewater, which he had bought in 1950. Searching for a way to support himself with his pen, Vidal decided to try writing for television. The Iron Pyrites age had arrived and with it came a voracious demand for new material. Vidal rapidly mastered the demands of the teleplay form and ultimately commanded fees as high as $5,000 for a one-hour script...