Word: rest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tree did not burst into light. Only the white star on its top and the tiny blue bulbs on the smaller trees blinked on. "Amy has lit 50 trees-one for each American hostage," explained President Carter to the 7,500 surprised onlookers. "We will turn on the rest of the lights when the hostages come home." The crowd was silent for a moment, then burst into applause...
...Cathay. Though a disastrous series of earthquakes leveled every trace of Tabriz's great palaces, the region's ethnic Turks remain a driving force in Iran. Not only do they represent more than a third of the population (5 million in Azerbaijan, 8 million more in the rest of the country), but they are the nation's middle class. They dominate the bazaars of Tehran. They dominate the army, providing about two-thirds of its officers. They provide many of the nation's intellectuals, writers and teachers. That is why the revolt of Azerbaijan...
While OPEC becomes richer, the rest of the world will grow poorer. For example, suppose oil hits $30 before the end of next year. Instead of a projected balance of payments surplus in 1980, the U.S. could wind up with a deficit of $15 billion, further weakening the dollar.* Overall, the combined balance of payments deficit for all industrial nations would climb from this year's $16 billion to perhaps as much as $40 billion in 1980. Developing nations would be hurt worst, since many of them have no exports of real value to count on at all. Their...
Kenny Jones has been christened "The Hairdresser" by the rest of the group for his high standard of grooming. Indeed in this mob he looks like a hopeful young actor fallen among thieves. Jones has a house on the outskirts of London, which he shares with his wife Janet and their two sons Dylan and Jesse. Jones enjoys the pleasures of a squire, himself, including riding to hounds, which he persists in calling "riding to dogs...
Fewer than 20% of the Cincinnati tickets were for reserved seats. The rest were for so-called festival seating, a sort of first-come-best-seated system that many of the country's major rock venues have long since given up as unworkable. Says Tony Tavares, director of the New Haven Coliseum where The Who will play this week: "When you sell a general admission ticket, you're challenging your crowd to get to the best seats in the house first. You're creating a system of pandemonium." New York City's Madison Square Garden, which...