Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East. After being fired by Ford, Schlesinger became Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy adviser for the six months before the 1976 convention. Reagan aides called him a couple of times a week, and Schlesinger asked only that his advice not be made public. When Reagan lost, Schlesinger, the honideological pragmatist, moved easily to Carter...
...more jaded Conchs, who have their afternoon beers and whiskies at the Tide's Inn, think the battle is already lost. They are selling their suddenly fashionable homesteads at the inflated prices and moving out. Gripes retired Fisherman C.B. McHugh: "The silence is gone. There's nothing left but damned strangers." Local Aristocrat David Wolkowsky, who recently sold his Pier House hotel to New Orleans investors for $4.6 million (but kept his 1926 Rolls-Royce), is concerned but a bit more optimistic: "The future is secure as long as we keep this place as a getaway...
...heighten the senses and relax the user. That might have been useful in the intense atmosphere of the trading floor. A senior DEA official doubts that profits from the coke sales were being used by the traders to cover their losses on the risky market. Millions are made and lost each day on the exchange, but Board President William M. Smith assured investors that their money was in no greater jeopardy than usual. Said he: "Only a small number of individuals are involved...
...political prisoners: In January, demonstrators paraded a man who was blind and had lost his arms. They said SAVAK did this to him, and they called him a hero. In fact, he was a terrorist who lost his sight and was maimed when a bomb he was making exploded. If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him. We would not have let him live as a document of torture...
...seeking to fend off criticism that their boss had overplayed the perils posed by the Iranian oil shutoff, quickly sought to explain that the Secretary was trying to promote "prudence, not panic." Indeed, the Iranian situation is already having a significant adverse effect on oil supplies. Since late December, lost Iranian production has been causing a worldwide petroleum shortfall of approximately 2.5 million bbl. a day. That is almost exactly the same amount that was lost during the 1973 Arab embargo, and oil companies are being forced to dip ever deeper into their inventories to make up for it. Last...