Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East peace talks and SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union. Filling the policy vacuum was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was almost unopposed in his recommendation that the U.S. must support the Shah without reservation. Day-to-day operations, according to State Department sources, were left in the hands of low-level officials. Complained a knowledgeable observer last week: "There has been nobody but a desk officer in the department paying any attention at all to the bloody thing. Brzezinski operated high, wide and handsome...
Tehran-based employees of Bell Helicopter International sported grimly humorous T shirts last week. They were emblazoned with the slogan KEEP A LOW PROFILE and a row of bullet holes across the chest...
Whatever merchandise is not pre-ordered by specific customers may wind up on the streets of the Tepito section of Mexico City. Prices there, even after the mardida, or bribe, that chiveras must pay to Mexican customs agents, are low. A Panasonic radio cassette that sells in the U.S. for $40 was snatched up in Tepito for $65 at the same time that a Mexican department store was selling it on a special for about...
...low cost. "Every cheap architect could copy Mies," says Johnson. "He could go to the client and say, I can do a building cheaper than I did it for you last year, because now I have a religion. We have a flat roof and simple factory-made curtain walls. It was a justification for cheapness that took over our cityscapes, and that is what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block...
...most persuasive lure to prospective members is now and has always been the low dues for recent graduates. For the first four years after college, the fee is only $72 per year. Then it goes up rapidly, levelling off at $360 per year for those out of college ten years or more...