Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dying, its foreign debt now totals a staggering $14.7 billion. The President's ambitious program of industrialization, especially the largely automated natural gas plants, provided too few jobs for a population that has grown from 12 million to 18 million since he took over. In foreign affairs, Boumedienne lost some prestige in the Arab world by backing and providing bases for the Polisario rebels, who seek to wrest the former Spanish Sahara from neighboring Morocco and Mauritania. His successor must decide whether to continue that fight...
Financially troubled American Motors took a different approach. The company lost an estimated $65 million on its conventional cars in 1978, and sales of all of its cars, except the Jeep, were down 30% in November from the same month a year ago. So A.M.C. has decided to woo customers to its new, small Spirit model with price reductions and freebie options, such as AM radios and whitewalls, that could save the buyer as much as $284 on the price...
...blocks of Manhattan Island. No glass slab could hope to be as rich in imagery as the work of an architect like Raymond Hood (chief architect of Rockefeller Center, designer of the old McGraw-Hill Building and the Chicago Tribune Tower). This point was not lost on Johnson. Fantasy veiled as history: such is the message of A T & T. In the process, Hood is appropriated to the recipe...
Thomas O'Brien, vice president for financial affairs, said the loss of federal funds would be responsible for any deficit. He noted, as an example, that the school lost $90,000 when the federal government switched appropriations for fiscal year 1978-79, eliminating funds that were available in previous years...
Aykroyd, at least on record, plays second fiddle to Belushi, who first conceived the Blues Brothers act. Aykroyd's harmonica fills are never less than adequate, and are quite often strong. Unfortunately, they tend to get lost in the mix, marring the otherwise excellent production by Bob Tischler...