Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humor is spiked with sardonic throwaway lines (he calls dilettante English Rockers who love American blues "tea bags"). Cooder likes to stay close to home, but when he must go to L.A., he dresses his otherwise modest person in smashing, vibrant shirts made especially for him by a neighbor friend named Sumiko and drives into town in a '55 Nash Rambler ("the only unhip car I could find...
...Through subsidies and dumping, nations would drive all-out to increase their exports; meanwhile, through stiffer tariffs and quotas, they would wall out imports. Such a mercantilist policy could lead to a tragic rerun of the 1930s, when most of the industrial nations were intensively trying to "beggar their neighbor." The result was a disastrous contraction of world trade and paralysis of the international monetary system. Thus the answer to the crisis created by high oil prices, conclude Simon and Kissinger, is not a recycling mechanism but a concerted effort to bring those prices down...
...carpet and badly sprained her neck; she was awarded $5,000. Payments have ranged from a few dollars to $350,000 for a series of operations on a four-year-old New York boy; acid had been thrown in the child's face by a deranged neighbor...
...arrived at 5:55 p.m., accompanied by her daughter Susan and Nancy Howe, her personal assistant, and went up to the handsome, Williamsburg blue presidential suite on the third floor. As it happened, Mrs. Peter Abbruzzese, a good friend and former Alexandria neighbor, was in the hospital, having just given birth to a girl. The Abbruzzeses had already decided to name the baby Katherine Elizabeth-the Elizabeth for Betty Ford. Susan Ford, who had been the Abbruzzeses' baby sitter for years, left her mother and delivered a present to the maternity ward-two satin baby pillows that Mrs. Ford...
...when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from 1964 to 1967 as Governor of Madras, Mysore's neighbor to the east...