Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied history long enough to know it was totally irrelevant in fact; he had played craps enough at work to know that if you roll a seven, that still doesn't make you any more likely to roll another seven on your next throw. The future was always near but also unforseen, dependent entirely on the here...
...that the government's failure to arrest Mrs. Gandhi for abuse of power during her 21-month emergency rule had disillusioned all of India. "The people think that we in the government are a bunch of impotents who cannot govern the country," he charged from his rest-house near the ancient Hindu sun temple of Suraj Kund...
Neto and Castro are apparently determined to see that there will be no Shaba III in the near future. As veterans of the Shaba invasion cross the border back into Angola, they are being intercepted by Neto's troops and stripped of their weapons. In a message released through the Angolan press and radio, Neto had promised last month to disarm the returning Katangese and relocate their refugee camps further from the Zaïrian border...
...them on last October. After visiting buyers of Textron rolling mills in Yugoslavia and Poland, they were supposed to fly to Vienna, but their plane was grounded by fog. So Miller herded them aboard a bus for a 14-hour trip through Czechoslovakia. The roads were rough and visibility near zero, but Miller, sitting beside the driver, issued a steady stream of instructions about how to steer through tight turns. Periodically, he had the bus stopped so that he could loosen up with calisthenics, and everybody else could get over the shakes...
...study some obscure financial problem. According to persistent legend, Reserve employees also indulge in a good deal of partying and high living. Fed people say the stories are exaggerated, though the board long had its own tennis courts, and today its staffers almost monopolize some supposedly public courts near the building...