Word: meet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of OPEC and without its own oil reserves, necessity has fired innovation. Sasol now provides less than 10% of the 240,000 bbl. a day of oil that South Africa requires, but the country is spending $6 billion to build two more Sasol plants, which are expected to meet about half of its needs by the early 1980s...
...comedy about the chaos and confusion that occur when two families who don't know each other and who have, to say the least, conflicting values, meet for dinner. Their aim is to cooperate in a civilized manner in the marriage of their only children. The girl's father is a French politician noted for his devotion to an organization known as the Union of Moral Order. It is supposed to rescue traditional standards from their assault by wayward modernism. The boy's father (Ugo Tognazzi) is a homosexual. But not just any ordinary homosexual...
There was time enough to change things to meet world-atlas standards, but Johansen decided to let it stand as Swaheto. "Makes it bigger that way, more universal," he will explain, if pressed. "I think I did it right...
...likes to keep the music simple, the lyrics spare, so that a song like Flamingo Road reaches high and wide, becomes an angry, baiting confessional stashed inside a catchy pop threnody. Flamingo Road is a place where many of Johansen's obsessions - fashion, high romance, lowlife - all meet and rebound off one another until they form dead ends. Flamingo Road is the street where love is lost and where dreams die. It is probably off somewhere on the far side of Swaheto. You will never find it in Miami Beach. - Jay Cocks
...youngsters are assigned to groups ("Otters," "Chipmunks," "Sunfish") that meet each morning to plan the day's agenda. There, explains Leichtman, the kids "learn reciprocity, patience, negotiation, compromise." They also get peer support...