Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three times last week Sadat spoke to Carter on the telephone, explaining why the timetable was so important to Egypt and the rest of the Arab world. He rejected the Israeli complaint that he was raising the ante in negotiations by placing more emphasis on the issue than before, although it was true that he had strengthened his case during the Blair House talks...
...40th birthday Claybrook gave her a gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...
What had made the shelters particularly fetching was that in most instances the investors had to put up only a small amount of their own cash. As a partnership they often borrowed the rest on a "nonrecourse" loan, paper for which the partners are not personally liable. If the notes were defaulted, the lender got the property, and the investors got their writeoffs from depreciation and had no worry about being sued for leftover debt...
Paterno himself is just another slightly scholarly-looking tenured professor (health, phys-ed and recreation), though his pupils bring in $5 million in annual revenues and $2 million in profits, which is plowed back into sports facilities for the rest of the.student body. Phys-ed classes at Penn State have first call on the school's indoor arenas, so the Nittany Lions occasionally must sweep snow off their field in order to practice. Says Paterno: "We never had a rug in our locker room. We're more spartan, and it's more of a challenge. We recruit...
...encores after the trio, "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore," Prince, Falk and Weary suddenly perk up and begin to command the Loeb stage. It doesn't matter that many of their routines are classic D'Oyly Carte fare--they start to look like they're having fun. The rest of the act, through the big finale, benefitted...