Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, the Russian news agency Tass lashed out at the U.S. after CIA Director Stansfield Turner remarked that though events in Iran stemmed from "genuine dissent," he was "sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...
Back at the turn of the centtaken hold of Harvard's athletic program, as The Gameapproached its silver anniversary. There was talk ofbuilding a stadium, replacing Soldiers Field's hazardouswooden stands with a more grandiose home for the Crimsongridders; but President Eliot feared the proposed concretearena would lie like a dormant white monster when thefootball fad faded...
...been a bumpy road to peace, and a few more jolts could lie ahead. Only a week earlier, the whole mood of negotiations darkened when Israel announced that it would expand the size of five Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. That decision had given Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a strong excuse for pulling out of the negotiations if he had wanted to do so. Obviously he did not, even though Begin continued to talk defiantly, even provocatively, about Israel's goals. Accepting this year's Family of Man award from the New York Council of Churches...
Because the PAT plans are costly and complex to run, especially for smaller banks, the future may well lie with the simpler system of negotiable order of withdrawals, or NOWS. Here a customer need only open a single savings account and when he wants to pay a bill, write a withdrawal order: a draft that looks like a check and can be used...
...passes before his eyes. If the drowning man is devout, it can be imagined that in those final moments he examines the scenes to determine the balance between his sins and his virtues with a view toward eventual salvation. Since l am not particularly devout, my chances for salvation lie in a place sometime in the future on a library shelf...