Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Jewish refugees has varied greatly. Fewer than 10,000 were allowed by Moscow to emigrate during the entire period 1961-71. That number soared to more than 30,000 in 1972 and 1973, then dropped sharply, then rose again last summer. This year's total may reach...
...came after weeks of rising pressure from the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) and a phone call to the company's Chicago headquarters from none other than Jimmy Carter. It was the President's first such jawboning-by-wire, and the highest official he could reach was the senior vice president for public affairs; the others were out to lunch, and Chairman Edward Telling was in an airplane flying over Kansas at the time...
...roads go, they are hardly spectacular, merely long gray ribbons of dirt and gravel. But the two highways-one in Alaska, the other in Canada-cannot be judged by initial appearances alone. North America's first throughways to the frozen north, they reach far beyond the Arctic Circle and slice through some of the continent's grandest terrain...
Taking no chances, the lights sprinted the last 200 meters to reach open water and squelch any Williams or Cornell hopes for a comeback...
...copiously as ever, insuring that Manhattan is an entertaining movie. But the sheer wordiness of its characters keeps them from being engaging and distances them from any emotional contact with the audience. In farces like Sleeper or Love and Death, of course, no one expected the characters to reach out and seize viewers' hearts. But Allen has broadcast his intention to write serious comedies, or funny dramas. Judged by the standards of serious film he seems to invoke--namely, Bergman--Manhattan falls far short...