Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like war. I would like to return to my work, my original profession as a civil engineer. Every Palestinian would like to live in peace. But if you are pushing us into a corner with this false treaty, we haven't any other choice but to defend ourselves. [Arafat mocked the prospect of limited self-rule for a Palestinian state held out by the Camp David agreements.] Self-rule? Self-rule without any control of the land and even the water -the water for drinking? If you were in my position, would you accept it, this new slavery...
...blow to the government's authority and esteem. In a scathing attack on Labor, Thatcher said: "Whether or not they manage a few more abject months or weeks or even hours in office, the results will almost certainly be the same. Labor has passed the point of no return...
...exiles promise a return to democracy...
Malta, which had been a British colony since 1814, gained its independence in 1964. A ten-year military facilities agreement with London, signed that year, allowed the British to station 7,500 troops and technicians on the island. In return Malta received an estimated $70 million annually in rent and other income. But Malta's emotional and acerbic Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who once tried to persuade the British to make Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, decided that he did not want them there at all. The son of a ship's cook, Rhodes scholar...
...handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping plant in the islands; and 2) took $750,000 from Canteen Corp. in return for a food concession at Ford plants...