Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architects of Singapore's development in the last decade are a technocratic elite, directed by the PAP leadership. Lee Kuan Yew has led his trusted team of talented and brilliant senior cabinet members in ruthlessly creating a totalitarian city-state which is oft-cited in the West as a showcase of successful capitalist development and a paradise for foreign investors. Accompanying this experience is a meritocratic-elitist ideology which is summed up in Lee's claim that Singapore will perish if a jumbo-jet containing 300 of Singapore's top leaders were to crash...
...oft, Johnny Campo will tell you that Media should have won the race...
...Washington moved last week to meet Moscow's oft-repeated demands for a resumption of the Geneva talks, Pravda 's critique of Kissinger seemed downright restrained in the face of such a clear bonanza for the Russians. At week's end, however, the Soviet press agency Tass cited charges published in some Arab newspapers that the CIA was involved in the assassination of Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Since quoting from the foreign press is a common Soviet way of expressing official views, the repetition of this patently absurd accusation was a measure of how far the Kremlin...
...most, it was only a secondary complication. The main difficulty for Kissinger on his latest shuttle was that Egypt and Israel, despite their oft-expressed interest in making joint progress toward peace, had such widely varying diplomatic goals in the negotiations...
...private life," confessed thrice-divorced Actress Brigitte Bardot, 40, during an interview in the Paris society weekly Jours de France. Her interviewer: French Novelist Françoise Sagan, 39, who has known the durable coquette for two decades. "I believe that exhibitionists are repressing feelings of shame," announced the oft-displayed Bardot when asked about eroticism in movies. "For me, love needs mystery, secrecy, silence. It is a very private affair." Will life ever change for the actress? "Perhaps in five years I will be forgotten, perhaps not," said Bardot. "I will be 45, and I will not have lost...