Word: milliones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poacher at work in the back country of contemporary Africa? No: this scene, or at least something like it, occurred some 1.5 million years ago, at the edge of Lake Turkana, formerly called Lake Rudolph, in northwestern Kenya...
...geologists who had been excavating hillside sediments that were once part of the lake. The geological team, led by Kay Behrens-meyer and Leo LaPorte of the University of California at Santa Cruz, found seven footprints in a layer of sediment dated by radioactive clocks to be 1.5 million years old. All the prints apparently belonged to the same individual. One of them showed unmistakably that he, or perhaps she, had slipped while walking...
...when Hoffman, then an unknown, was doing three of Schisgal's one-act plays in Stockbridge, Mass. The author liked to take early-morning walks, and every day when he left his hotel, Hoffman would be waiting for him. "He'd have the script and a million questions to ask: 'What's your thought here? What's your thought there?' I had never worked with an actor like that. He is eternally dissatisfied with what he has achieved. Right now he isn't negative about Kramer. But I have no doubt that...
...longer will accept dollars for oil, Iran needs the U.S. currency to pay for imports of everything from Australian wheat to Japanese machinery, which are all priced in dollars in international trading. Iran's oil exports, which have been declining in recent weeks, amount to about $70 million daily, only a fraction of the more than $150 billion that normally changes hands every day in international dollar transactions...
...debts, the danger is that European and Japanese banks might call in their loans to Iran. The possibility became more acute last week. That was because of an action by an eleven-member international financing syndicate headed by the Chase Manhattan Bank. The syndicate voted to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default for failure by Tehran to pay some $4 million in interest charges. The Iranian central bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest...