Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friends of both families hope that Princess Nur will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter...
...rushing to catch up on hiring that they might have begun two or even three years ago, but put off because they feared that the business expansion would not last. Says James Fromstein, vice president of Manpower, Inc., a temporary-help firm: "Management has taken heart with each quarter of recovery, when things did not fall apart once more. When all the doubt was around, employment decisions were postponed. Now those decisions to hire cannot be delayed...
...vending machines, and will save the Government $4.5 million a year because it will not wear out for 15 years, vs. 18 months for dollar bills, which will remain in circulation. In an unintended tribute to inflation, the new dollar will be just larger than a quarter...
Samuel Beckett performed some brave work with the French Resistance during World War II: He married a woman seven years his senior in 1961 after having lived with her for amost a quarter-century...
...Since I fell out of the cradle I've been racin' dogs, ya see. It's an inherited vice. One of my dogs, Downing, who's injured and not here tonight, is one of the best in the world--worth a quarter of a million dollars," he said...