Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops fought with Palestinian guerrillas. Says Flamini: "The first two people I met in the [Tehran] hotel lobby had also been in Amman. We talked about whether or not we should fill our bathtubs in preparation for another siege that would cut off our water. We concluded such a move was premature but could not be ruled out later...
...countries and the political aspects of the international energy situation. Carter explained Washington's new policy toward China, and the other three agreed that the normalization of U.S. ties with Peking was a positive step. But the Germans had been surprised by the suddenness of Carter's move, and they were known to have feared originally that there might be a secret deal with Peking that could pit Washington against Moscow. Giscard stressed that the new U.S. policy on China must not interfere with negotiations with the Soviets. After the matter had been discussed, there was a consensus...
Like the 60 or so other relatives of the Shah who have left Iran since troubles began last fall, Princess Shams has kept a very low profile. Married to a former Iranian Minister of Culture, Mehrdad Pahlbod, she is constantly on the move, normally staying at her Beverly Hills mansion for only about seven or eight weeks a year. The princess entertains discreetly (dinner parties of 20 to 40) and favors such chic restaurants as the Bistro and Ma Maison, but apparently does her serious shopping in Paris...
...faculty hiring: "There are so few that we end up bidding against each other to recruit them. It would be far more sensible to start out by trying to increase the pool of minorities and women qualified for these jobs." Chicago's Johnson frets that Congress's move to defer mandatory retirement age to 70, beginning in 1982, will prevent Chicago from hiring 100 new assistant professors during the following five years. Says he: "It's going to turn every school into more of a geriatric ward, and that is not good for higher education...
...publish all day, and most are in relatively small, one-paper cities. But in the past couple of years some big-city afternoon papers have added morning editions: the Detroit News (circ. 634,000), Dallas Times Herald (251,000), and Oakland Tribune (164,000). Other papers are considering the move, among them the financially beset Washington Star (329,000), which has renegotiated its union contracts as part of a long-term campaign for revival (see following story...