Word: likings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sandy banks of the Pamlico River? Because North Carolina is basketball country, that's why. It is a state where few issues besides tobacco prices and Joe Califano's antismoking campaign can generate as much passionate controversy as basketball. To Tar Heels, especially those in obscure backwaters like Washington (pop. 9,000), young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang in the air like a bat and do things with a basketball that Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam...
...driveway outside his mother's modest apartment in the Runyon Creek public housing project, everyone assumed that it was the clincher in N.C. State's sign up Dr. Dunk campaign. After all, she wasn't working. How could she afford an expensive car like that? Besides, weren't red and white the Wolfpack colors...
...their own defense, officials in Tokyo insisted that Japan, like the U.S., was a victim of Iranian blackmail. Unless the oil was bought, they claimed, Tehran threatened to suspend negotiations on Japan's 1980 allotment of Iranian oil, which this year amounted to 11 % of Japanese consumption. Moreover, the officials said, buying the oil helped make up for the cut in oil shipments by U.S. firms to Japan, from 1.4 million bbl. a day in 1978 to about 1 million bbl. because of reduced production by OPEC members and the shippers' decision to fill domestic American orders first...
...items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in any third country. True, the shops in Tehran may no longer be able to stock imported items like detergents, disposable diapers and tooth paste, and there are occasional shortages of bread, eggs, meat and other items. But otherwise, there is scarcely any sign in the city of the U.S. economic squeeze...
...said of the Azerbaijanis, the rugged mountain people who flourish in the northwestern tip of Iran, that they are like a camel-hard to rouse and get up onto their feet, but once up, hard to stop. So it is that their opposition to the Ayatullah Khomeini began as a protest, turned into a demonstration, then a revolt, and now a challenge to the theocratic regime that Khomeini has just imposed on the nation...