Word: matter
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...bodyguards. Although an anonymous caller to the state news agency claimed that the killings were committed by a previously unknown terrorist group called P.M., Khomeini and his followers characteristically blamed the assassinations on the U.S. Said the victim's son, Sadegh Mofatteh, 21, a college student: "No matter who pulled the trigger, it was the CIA that engineered the conspiracy...
Even if the Carter Administration could find ways of making sanctions against Iran stick, they would have little effect over the short run. Concludes Harald Malmgren, a respected international economist and consultant in Washington: "The U.S. near term leverage is simply less than it appears. No matter what the U.S. does economically, Iran can make this thing drag on for many more months to come...
...opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor General, tomorrow morning...
...beginning to snow again. My God, there must be eight feet out there now, Heather. I don't know what to do." After only a few hours of showing, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts had the exhibit covered up and charged the artist with "character assassination." The matter wound up in court. The result: Art 1, City Hall 0. Sefick, who is now preparing The Bilandics for exhibit, is still mystified by all the excitement. "I just meant it to be funny," he says...
Such in-joking helps distinguish Looking for Work from the 8 trillion or so recent novels about young women trying to find themselves. The chief point of the exercise seems to be fun. No matter how much she protests, Salley is a confirmed flibbertigibbet, her name itself an amusingly pointless steal from a poem by Yeats ("Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet"). Life has given her every advantage, including just the right number of trendy neuroses. Though she claims to spend a large portion of her story job hunting, what she really looks...