Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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(4 of 12) nine months of 1977, Quebec suffered a net loss of 30,622 people. Some nervous English Quebeckers who decided to stay deposited their savings at banks in such U.S. border cities as Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt. Last month a major uproar broke out when Canada's...
> A tight budget, with spending for fiscal 1979, which starts Oct. 1, held to $500.2 billion, roughly 8% more than this fiscal year. (The President stressed heavily that, adjusted for inflation, the increase would be only 2%.) The deficit is expected to shrink slightly, from $61.8 billion in fiscal 1978...
Iphigenia at Aulis unquestionably stands as one of the most timeless and powerful of the Greek tragedies. After the Trojan Paris elopes with Menelaus's wife Helen, the Greek kings and their armies converge on Aulis, from where, under the command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, they will sail to...
The U.S. has long argued that West Germany and Japan should stimulate their own economies through domestic growth, thus reducing their trade surpluses and taking some pressure off the dollar. That would indeed help, and some progress is being made. Presidential Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss will visit Tokyo this week...
Christmas is synonymous with trees, but my parents--how I don't know--have always resisted the inevitable childhood pleas for a fancy evergreen. They act like my older sister is--one of those serious types who gets very annoyed at the sight of the officially sanctioned "X-mas" tree...