Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long election night, only three percentage points separated the top four candidates: Koch, 20%; Cuomo, 19%; Beame, 18%; Abzug, 17%. For Koch, 52, and Cuomo, 45, the first-round results meant a tough play-off for their party's nomination. The two come from similar backgrounds, agree on more substantive questions than not, and contrast mostly in their personalities and styles...
...abduction sent waves of anger and fear rippling through West Germany The brutal incident was the latest round in what many West Germans have begun calling a civil war between their government and a small army of nihilistic urban terrorists bent on disrupting public order. Since April, Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback has been gunned down on the streets of Karlsruhe and Banker Jürgen Ponto slain inside his estate near Frankfurt (TIME, Aug. 15). A report by the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous...
...difference to the miners' wage claim." They want a pay increase on Nov. 1, rather than in March, which would be twelve months after their last contract negotiation. A midwinter miners' strike remains a possibility. Privately, both union leaders and employers are predicting that the next round of settlements will fall in the 15% to 17% range-far higher than the 10% sought by Callaghan and Healey. Observed Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs: "I think it's going to be a winter of deep discontent...
...African novelist Nadine Gordimer says, "The facts are always less than what really happened." But many novelists now find truth not only stranger than fiction but easier to write; it takes less effort to embellish a character the reader already knows than to create a new character in the round...
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