Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This wouldn't have happened if Mayor Daley were still alive." So Chicagoans console themselves when things go wrong, and last week, it is true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted the city's economy. A walkout by oil delivery truck drivers caused a gasoline shortage. For the first time, the city's firemen voted to authorize a strike. And the school system, the nation's third largest, was on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger...
...Spaniards as a place to count their catch from the surrounding pearl-rich waters. In the 1920s, a mysterious disease killed off the oyster beds, and for decades Contadora remained just another of the obscure-if beautiful-islands that speckle the Gulf of Panama. Then, in the late 1960s, the motorboat of the wealthy Lewis conked out near the island, and he came away with blueprints dancing in his eyes. For $30,000 he bought the island, and development was under...
...obliged to buy less of almost everything else, notably cars, appliances and other durable goods. Squeezed by tight money, the construction rate of new homes and apartments could go as low as 1.2 million by March. As demand wanes, businessmen will further reduce production and inventories. But by late fall or early winter, their shelves and warehouses will be fairly empty, and they will have to stock up with new orders. This should send the economy up again...
...Khalid, commands enough authority, especially among the armed forces, to withstand a broader-based insurrection. One U.S. expert believes that the regime should embark on an emergency anticorruption campaign, but he is not particularly hopeful. His conclusion: "Some say the royal family can survive. Some say it is too late...
...Basic Law. A year later he was elected a charter member of the Bundestag and served as its Vice President for 20 years before retiring in 1972. Co ordinator of programs under the 1963 Franco-German Reconciliation Agreement from 1969 until his death, Schmid bitterly regretted his late entry into statecraft: "I believed earlier that one should stay away from politics because one could so easily be dirtied. Then the Third Reich arrived, and I asked myself: Who is actually responsible...