Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is new hope for the afflicted. While no sure cure yet exists for migraines, increased research into headaches of all kinds is finally yielding both new understanding and treatment of this worst of the lot...
...journalistic reportage. Harrison Salisbury, for instance, fresh from a month-long tour of China, has been able to write in the New York Times about the educational system, border strife and other subjects with greater depth than he could during a 1972 trip. He explains: "There was a lot of gee-whiz reporting then. It was like landing on the moon...
...cartoons." null Truffaut, the French director whom Spielberg persuaded to act in the film, was also dazzled by Spielberg's stamina?though he was somewhat baffled by the movie itself. "I never really tried to figure out what my role meant," he says. "I know I was there a lot, but like Greta Garbo, I can say only that I had the feeling of waiting...
...mother ship is supposed to land at night, and Trumbull placed 2,000 flood lights and six arc lights along its edge to create what he calls a "wall of light" and the illusion that the entire ship is whirring as it settles to the ground. "We did a lot of experimentation," he says. "But the result is really spectacular. The ship is a city in the sky." The aliens who emerge from the base of Big Mama were the assignment of Italian Designer Carlo Rambaldi, the man who made King Kong in the 1976 film. "The idea was that...
...workaday achievements, the I.L.O. has been successful. It won the NObel Peace Prize on its 50th anniversary in 1969 for its wide-ranging efforts to upgrade the lot of the world's workers. It is involved in vocational training in India and Morocco, management development in Pakistan and Tanzania; it provides technical assistance in building work forces for developing nations that lack economic expertise. The I.L.O. has made 152 recommendations to set international labor standards for working conditions, hours and vacations, and has begun moving on such newer issues as occupational disease and sex discrimination in jobs. I.L.O. specialists helped...