Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other areas, however, Carter has appeared less adept. Stung and baffled by the appearance of Cubans as an influence in Africa, the White House has alternately blustered and equivocated. The Administration failed to offer conclusive evidence for its charge that Cubans were deeply involved in the recent invasion of Zaire by Katangese rebels. To many observers, it seemed a risk of presidential credibility on a marginal and ill-documented controversy...
Whoever does succeed Iacocca will have a tough act to follow. In 1964, Iacocca catapulted himself to prominence by doing much to design the Mustang and directing the marketing drive that made it the bestselling new car ever. He had been scheduled to offer some remarks last week at the press preview of the 1979 version, the Mustang III, but was dropped from the program. Ford is placing much hope on the car's radical restyling, with a Mercedes-like rear end and a long list of luxury options, to revive Mustang sales, which have sagged in the past...
...stalls typically are filled with a smorgasbord designed to appeal to every taste, from used goods to discounted, discontinued lines of new merchandise. Aficionados claim that the larger markets offer one of everything ever made and two of everything Woolworth ever sold. There are Army uniforms, ladies' spats, metal detectors, Roosevelt buttons, Wallace buttons, Nixon buttons, toilet seats, hubcaps, ski boots, gum ball machines, telephones, dried fruit, perfumes, crutches, jump ropes and Christian Dior shirts...
Hollywood, however, and whatever the French equivalent of the silver screen is called, prefer to adopt a new male for women to turn to, rather than a new woman who has something of their own to offer. Fonda and Clayburgh are really in search of new men, not new lives. And Girardot is so charmingly obsessed with her career that it is difficult to see her as anything but a female detective. They are all uninspiring people, leaving you sitting in your seat, as the lights come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool...
...farmer makes cutting up fence posts and driving them into the ground sound like fun. Similarly, he stresses the serendipitous surprises that rural life can offer. Cursing himself for overcooking a batch of sap, Perrin discovers that ruined syrup can still be turned into first-rate maple candy...