Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Tehran's support of the Kurdish rebellion against Baghdad, as well as longstanding frontier disputes, has already led to skirmishing on the Iran-Iraq border. New Delhi, meanwhile, grows progressively more uncomfortable as it watches Iran's military muscle edge toward the Indian Ocean, fearing that Tehran one day will ally itself with Pakistan, a fellow Moslem state, against India...
...look after yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken him back. His career had come full circle and Parent celebrated in style. "I was drunk for six days," he says. "The ocean was calm but the boat kept rocking...
...West because of another Middle East war, an Arab oil embargo and a White House command to the U.S. military to lift the embargo. At this order, two massive U.S. strike groups would get under way. One would move through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf. It would include carriers whose jets would secure air control, and ships carrying at least a division of Marines (15,000 men). The second force would include two brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division (7,600 men) now stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. They would...
...Sleuth is simply a too-cute stage play turned into a too-cute (and what's worse for a mystery, too easy to figure out) movie: The Last of Sheila and Klute derive their chief interest not so much from their plots as from their settings, an ocean-liner studded with Hollywood stars and the underworld of an urban prostitute. The Long Goodbye tries to take on the whole tradition and do something with the self-consciousness that deliberate manipulation of the audience's expectations allows. The result, inexplicably, was boring...
...commodities speculator last month gave Harvard a $1 million endowment for a chair in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences...