Word: man
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...settlement, retained the Foreign Ministry, but he is losing the important information division, which is being set up as a separate ministry. Golda, annoyed by Eban's overly optimistic assessments of Israeli-U.S. relations, was reported to have told intimates that she did not really want "that man" in her Cabinet. Pinhas Sapir, who has spoken out against permanent settlement in the occupied areas, will soon lose the important post of Labor party secretary, but as Finance Minister will have the thankless task of struggling with Israel's growing economic crisis...
...already has ambitious plans for the Transport Ministry. "For the love of me," he says, "I do not know why we can have one of the best air forces in the world-sorry, the best -and one of the worst train services. You see, I am not a humble man. But you just watch this wagon move from...
Every British jobholder pays a weekly N.H.S. tax of 46? per man, 38? per woman and 26? per child. The added expense of private coverage, a minimum of $58 a year for a family of three to a top of about $166, once made it accessible to only a small minority. No longer. Roughly 70% of Provident's recent business has come from company group policies. Once limited to top executives, these policies are being extended to more and more employees...
...Conroys emerge from basement with day's take: last week's haul included eight place settings of gold-plated flatware for $39.95 (original price: $110), a man's fake suede car coat for $6 (originally $25), four pairs of lined, imported gloves at $5 each (originally $16), and a framed painting of a Spanish warrior for $14.95 (once close to $50). "A good shopper needs only one to two hours to case the place," says Mrs. Conroy. "Longer than that and you begin to get headaches...
Pure Chauvinism. Last week leading cosmologists caustically deflated NASA's universe. "I don't believe a word of it," snapped Caltech's Maarten Schmidt, who in 1963 identified quasars as the most distant objects ever seen by man. "A bunch of nonsense," said Mount Palomar Astronomer Allan Sandage. "It's pure chauvinism." Astrophysicist A. G. W. Cameron of NASA's own Goddard Institute for Space Studies was equally blunt: "This strikes me as a complete misunderstanding...