Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory, but as if to compensate, made a clever LP (Spaces) three...
...some importance. The new French government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seems much more committed to the alliance than its Gaullist predecessors, and Washington too seems more relaxed. The recent defeat in the Senate of attempts to cut U.S. forces in Europe unilaterally also helped NATO retain a measure of viability...
...footnote in the history of the industrialized West, and has been all but eliminated from most of the world's developing nations. But the disease has remained endemic in India, which still accounts for most of the world's remaining reported cases. The country is likely to retain this dubious distinction for a while. Indian authorities report that the current epidemic, which began last January, has so far stricken more than 100,000 and claimed 16,000 lives. The World Health Organization, which figures that as many as one out of every five afflicted by the disease will...
...week's end it was still uncertain how soon, if ever, the Prices would recover from their ordeal. Or whether, even if their flirtation with martyrdom has been happily aborted, they will be able to retain their heroine status once they are no longer a political cause celebre...
...return for this highly symbolic concession, however, Israel will retain a military position on Mount Hermon and on three hills?A vital, Berntal and Hermonit?overlooking Quneitra. Israeli forces will thus have excellent defensive positions and observation posts above the Damascus plain...