Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desolate quarter of Jerusalem, I met a schoolteacher cousin of Arafat, who said she would recollect what she could and tell me if 1 would come to her apartment in a few days, but only after dark. Two nights later, we met in her house at the end of an unlighted stony track at the edge of Jerusalem. She spoke willingly, but when I asked her why she insisted on seeing me at night, she said only, 'It is Ramadan and we fast during the day; I could not serve you coffee before dark...
Venezuela's quinquennial election last week was complicated by more than two dozen competing parties and an electorate of 4,000,000 that is at least one-quarter illiterate. Nevertheless, an ingenious ballot preserved the essence of democratic form. At 15,315 polls, voters received a stack of colored cards and an envelope. Each card was a different color to represent a party, and the campaign publicity had been heavy enough that even illiterates could choose correctly from the spectrum. The incumbent Action Democrdtica, for example, had a pristine white card. Action's closest competition, the Social
...moment, the International Monetary Fund last week reported some sanguine statistics about world trade. For the first time, nations are selling goods and services to each other at a rate of more than $200 billion a year. The flow reached $209 billion in this year's third quarter, an increase of 8% in the past twelve months. Altogether, the industrial nations increased their exports by 116% in the past decade...
...when the going got tough, Harvard's troops didn't get going--they fell flat. Under Springfield's second-half full-court press, Harvard handed over its seven-point lead, and by the middle of the fourth quarter, the Maroon...
...Humphrey, the brave and honest fighter who, almost singlehanded, made it from the worst-ever underdog to one-quarter percent from the presidency...