Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nchez, alias Carlos." Added another OPEC official: "If Carlos is a Latin American of medium height who speaks Spanish, French, English, German and Arabic, and if he is a cool killer who can also be polite to his hostages, then probably it was Carlos who kept us here...
Meanwhile there was Willebrands, 66, whose labors in the Vatican had kept him untainted by the left-right warfare back home. His ecumenical record had given him a progressive aura, but as a trusted Roman cardinal he was also a Vatican insider. However, Paul hesitated to let Willebrands go on the eve of the first substantial theological talks with Eastern Orthodoxy...
...other women, sent him a whore for the night as a gift of her love, dressed as a man in evening clothes to track him down at a fancy ball, wrecked his engagement to another woman. During this time she endured hysterical nightmares of Leopoldine's drowning. She kept Leopoldine's jewels in a box and wore one of her dresses...
...industry sees it, premiums have not kept up with the inflation in costs. Even so, the way premium rates are set is coming under attack from officials in Washington, who apparently believe that the rates are too high. The Ford Administration will soon ask Congress to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Since 1945 this act has permitted the states to regulate insurance companies, effectively exempting them from key aspects of federal antitrust laws...
What makes this record doubly remarkable is that the company was in trouble as recently as 1972. Its major clients, the oil and petrochemical industries, sensed that they had enough facilities worldwide and virtually stopped building. Instead of paring his payroll as competitors were doing, Chairman J. Robert Fluor kept several hundred of his top engineers and designers. He also maintained a team to work for the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) and opened three new offices overseas. Each of these decisions he explained as an "investment in the future...