Word: order
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage festivities of the daughter of James I), Ray Diffen has provided lovely gold-haloed costumes for the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno, who sing a terzetto by John Morris and oversee a pretty ballet of nymphs choreographed by Kathryn Posin (though Freedman has needlessly abridged the text in order to extend the singing and dancing--needlessly, since only The Comedy of Errors is shorter, and this production has a running-time of only two and a quarter hours...
...yourself out of a recession either." Twice this spring, at Federal Reserve System policy meetings, Volcker voted in the minority, against Chairman Miller, in favor of raising interest rates. By appointing him, Carter appears to be giving a sign that he will not dilute his anti-inflationary policies in order to stop an election-year recession. Said the President: "He shares my determination to vigorously pursue the battle against inflation at home and to ensure the strength and stability of the dollar abroad...
...expanded the family's wealth, although he did not always manage it well; some of his companies were so poorly run that they failed to turn a profit. Moving into the banking field with ownership of the Banco de Centroamerica, he heavily mortgaged his properties in Nicaragua in order to make available large amounts of cash. These funds were then shuttled through a network of interlocking companies in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Through such maneuvering, Somoza acquired his mansion in Miami Beach, which is officially owned by a company based in the Virgin Islands, two posh condominiums...
...allies were also at odds on how to replace the armed, 4,000-man United Nations Emergency Force, whose nine-month mandate to maintain peace in the Sinai was quietly allowed to expire last week in order to avert a Soviet veto in the Security Council. The U.S. proposed a compromise plan-carefully prearranged between Washington and Moscow-to deploy the unarmed observers of the 295-man United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in place of the U.N. Emergency Force...
Peeling in public for pay is a venerable occupation, but in the old sexist order the clothes came off a woman and the cheers came up from an audience ol men. But today at the Sugar Shack in Lake Geneva, Wis., or at the Red Pussycat in Salina, Kans., or the El Matador in Odebolt, Iowa, the women are watching and the men are bumping and grinding...