Word: libbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week Reagan infor mally approved a recommen dation that imports of Libyan oil be banned and that sales of American oil-drilling equipment to Libya be cut off. The action was now seen as feasible for two reasons: 1) after repeated State Department warnings, the number of Americans in Lib ya, mainly with oil companies, has been cut to fewer than 400, and those apparently refuse to leave; 2) the current oil glut makes it easier for the U.S. to replace the 120,000 bbl. per day (2% of U.S. oil imports) it has been buying from Libya and might...
...himself the literally endless task of making photographs, some on commission and others ad lib, of France, especially the part of France that lay in Paris and within a radius of 50 miles around it. They were not meant to be tourist views-he never, for instance, photographed that most distinctive of all Parisian "sights," the Eiffel Tower. Nor were they meant to reveal spectacular oddities; there are no extreme closeups, wrenching details or aerial views in Atget, and the lens of his old-fashioned camera was always pitched at the height of a small man. Consistently, his work declares...
...maybe George will strike a blow for women's lib and hire the first female manager. Jane Fonda's been wondering how to get herself and the anti-nukes back in the headlines. Tom Hayden coaching at first, Dr. Benjamin Spock at third, and Harvard's George Wald in the bullpen telling the receivers about the little children of El Salvador...
...cuts back and forth between the adventures and peregrinations of her characters, Alther constructs a broad social portrait of nearly two decades of American life. She covers civil rights, Viet Nam, women's lib, the sexual revolution, radical politics and back-to-earth movements. Raised in the comfortable stasis of a small Southern town, Alther's young people are woefully and often hilariously unprepared for what life in the '60s and early '70s throws their way. What is more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed...
When asked about yesterday's late practice, Kleinfelder seemed surprised, saying that the session ended earlier than usual. The second year coach supported her training schedule, adding that "you can ad-lib on offense, and sometimes you have to be creative, but within most situations you need discipline...