Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their facilities, a price that the Saudis can meet with less than one month's oil earnings. The Saudi takeover will move Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates to nationalize the last of the Western oil operations in those areas, probably this year. The companies will become mere agents, selling technical and marketing services to the governments...
That use, Wall reports in New Scientist, "is surprisingly rare and the number of cases is decreasing." At "the most active hospital using acupuncture," the technique was employed in 845 cases in 1970 and in only 324 in 1973-a mere 6% of all the year's operations. About half of 1973's operations using acupuncture were relatively minor, involving the removal of small thyroid nodules. Even for the least radical operations, most of the patients had their acupuncture reinforced by sedation with barbiturates, followed by a morphine-type analgesic and in some cases by injections...
...CONVERSATION. Francis Coppola's remarkable and moving study of an electronic surveillance expert (wonderfully acted by Gene Hackman) and his inadvertent, frightening implication in a crime. The movie also concerns rituals of ruptured privacy, and has a prevailing urgency which moves it past mere topicality...
...solo spotlights. At key moments, Everding darkens the stage and picks out a character with a single spot. Isolating Boris at the end of the coronation scene is brilliant stagecraft. But giving the Simpleton a solo spot in the forest clearing, at the opera's end, is mere staginess...
Many settle for fondling telephones, and some get bored at the mere mention of puppies or kittens. Others, like Business Writer James Grant, just grow wistful. "I used to have pets," Grant explains mistily, "but they all got married...