Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work sessions, he said again, "we are bringing on the Spartan approach, frills are passe--we can only be effective if we are serious." With a click of camera shutters, the opening session of the conference broke up, the floodlights blinked off, and the ever-present reporters began to mill around and crowd the stars into corners with a whole repertoire of Proposition 13 questions...
Pakistan is doing a little bridge building of its own with the Russians, despite its traditionally close ties with China. Earlier this year Zia dispatched a high-level delegation to Moscow. The ostensible purpose was to secure an additional $250 million in credits to finish a steel mill in Karachi that the Pakistanis are building with Soviet help. But in an interview with TIME, Zia made clear that another purpose of the mission was to warn the U.S. that "I must have my own opening?I must have our options open...
...Cone Mills of Greensboro, N.C., the world's largest producer, now runs its denim looms only four days a week instead of six. J.P. Stevens shut down half the 565 looms at its denim-making factory in Rock Hill, S.C. Foreign manufacturers are in much worse shape; they jumped heavily into denim a few years back when sales of the U.S.-made original began to soar. Hong Kong turns out a fifth of the denim it once did, Mexico is down to one mill, and Venezuela is out of the business altogether...
...will be overjoyed when (and if) the people of this country begin to realize that there is nothing mystical or omnipotent about Ted Kennedy. He is just one of the run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats who want to spend taxpayer money with big, useless Government programs. If we think taxes are bad now, just wait till we get a national health plan...
Though they are out of sight, the mere presence of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak soil has created a palpable sense of oppression. Husák's nonstop propaganda mill, justifying the troops as well as the invasion itself, has virtually deadened Czechoslovak sensibilities. The result, reports Aikman, is that most of the country has settled into an apathetic limbo. After 1968, the new regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman...