Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance, Lebanon's twelfth cease-fire takes hold, the man responsible will be Premier Rashid Karami, whose amazing patience makes him look like "the man of eternal hope. "A Sunni Moslem lawyer from Tripoli, Karami locked himself in the Serail (Government House) during the peak of the most recent fighting and vowed he would not leave until the street battles ended. In effect, Karami became the government. He took over the direction of security affairs-he holds the Defense portfolio in addition to being Premier-and worked round the clock without the help of aides, pleading with leaders...
...rest of the industrial world, the troubles are worse: not only has inflation been raging at rates generally higher than in the U.S., but recession still has an iron grip on most major economies. Despite the October jump, unemployment in the U.S. has come down from a peak of 9.2% in May, but it is still rising in Canada, Britain, Germany, France and most other European nations. In several, the jobless rolls are likely to go on expanding for another six months or so. In the 24 industrial countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
Frustrated, the Bruins began to play a more physical game as they outshot Harvard, 12-2. That frustration reached its peak when, at 21:31 of the period, Harvard's Steve Smith broke away from Brown fullbacks and beat a helpless Bruin goalie on the short side...
...wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence that there may be larger ones...
...seems clear that America's enthusiasm for the environmental movement has receded far from its Earth Day peak, when Capitol Hill anxious to capitalize on the popular issue passed much of the legislation now crucial to the ecology movement. This year environmentalists lobbying on the Hill are finding it increasingly difficult to pass or renew important legislation. It's anyone's guess how long the lawyers can hold on with only the legislative spoils of the past...