Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly became a friend of Hitler, performing three main functions for him according to Reginald H. Phelps, retired senior lecturer in German...
Other gains in compatibility are planned. After intense and sometimes heated negotiations between Bonn and Washington, the U.S. seems ready to put a 120-mm West German gun on most models of its new XM1 main battle tank. Bonn is considering giving its Leopard II tank an American engine...
Washington was equally startled. Fukuda was a particular favorite of President Carter, despite the 20-year difference in their ages. Fukuda at least appeared to understand American irritation over the imbalance in trade between the two countries that has been one main cause of the dollar's tribulations. Ohira intends to continue and even increase support for the greenback (see box). But because Ohira, as chief Cabinet secretary to Premier Hayato Ikeda in 1960, was an architect of Japan's spectacularly successful drive to make Japan an exporting juggernaut, Washington is uncertain about how eager he will...
...colleague describes Ohira's party role as "the lubricating oil that smoothed things out." His ability to mediate was to become his main political asset. "Confrontation is a waste of energy," he has said. "A little give and take is much more efficient in politics...
...While Main Street Ms. America pays $2 for simple moisturizers and cleansers, the more affluent are willing to drop $235 on the complete La Prairie line of five Swiss-made "miracle" creams and lotions that are sold at some department stores. The $70 Treatment Cream contains live cells from sheep placenta, ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where...