Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speakers at the ceremony included Dean Rosovsky and Isadore Twersky, professor of Near Eastern Languages and head of the Center for Jewish Studies...
...about six months, they will open a clinic near Cambridge where infertile couples will be treated and medical teams trained in the technique. The Britons will also serve as advisers for a U.S. clinic in Norfolk, now in the planning stages...
...oils and fewer synthetic ones than cheaper scents. But Francis Le Cates Jr., a cosmetics analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, estimates that on average only 80 of the cosmetics sales dollar goes to pay for ingredients. The extra cost of the better ones used in prestige products comes nowhere near accounting for the difference in selling price. The real difference is in fancier packaging, splashier promotion, and the fact that the swankier cosmetics are made in limited quantity for sale through prestige stores, which raises the manufacturing cost per unit...
Paradise Lost was not just any new opera; it came as highly touted as a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular. The libretto was written by Playwright Christopher Fry (The Lady's Not for Burning). Chicago Lyric spent well over half a million dollars on the production, a near record. The musical forces were mighty: a Wagnerian orchestra of 96, a chorus of 100. The preparation was elaborate. Choral rehearsals began in April; the orchestra practiced an unprecedented 110 hours...
...before a vastly more appreciative audience, Richard M. Nixon told 800 guests of Oxford University's prestigious debating society that the crowd outside made him feel "very much at home" and that "I have retired from politics, but I have not retired from life." Nixon addressed the society near the end of a week-long trip to France and England, his first overseas trip since 1976, when he visited China. When he appeared before the Oxford group, the ex-President said of Watergate: "I failed to handle a little thing, which became a big thing-and that colors everything...