Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...halting pace of the negotiations proved an asset in attacking the second challenge of SALT reporting. Said Talbott: "I've had the luxury, rare in deadline journalism, of time to evolve a historical perspective and to return several times to my various sources...
Summoning her balanced, surprisingly moderate 22-member Cabinet for its inaugural meeting, she delivered what her listeners regarded as a lively pep talk. With impressive confidence, her colleagues reported, she stressed the need of a measured return to more limited government and self-reliance...
Beer consumption is off for several reasons, including the sobering effect of tough laws aimed at curbing drunken driving, as well as the slowdown in the German economy that has forced 500,000 beer-loving, "guest workers" from Turkey and other countries to return home. Germans are also increasingly preoccupied with physical fitness, and the full belly that was once regarded as a sign of a healthy, jovial temperament is now seen as a sign of excess...
...abdicate its moral responsibilities twice. Today, it has the opportunity to divest, to show the world that it does have a conscience, and that it will no longer live upon profits drawn from the very lives of an oppressed people. It has not taken that position. Tomorrow, once the return on investment is seriously interrupted, the Corporation could show that helping a people towards recovery is more important than monetary gain. Instead, if Mr. Bok's arguments are followed to their logical conclusion, the Corporation probably will with-draw its support from the companies in South Africa, the very support...
...first six tiebreaker points. At 2-4, Chaikovsky served, then hit four straight volleys, the last of which caught the net and hung in the air for the "bearded lefty." "He whaled on it, and it hit like the back screen," Chaikovsky said. At 3-4, Cornell missed the return, and the tension-filled match boiled down to one final, glorious, gut-wrenching point (is that one adjective too many...