Word: rumoring
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...sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich of Harrisburg, who looks a bit like bug-eyed Comedian Rodney ("I don't get no respect") Dangerfield, learned about the disastrous doings at nearby Three Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster. It was two days before Doutrich was properly briefed by utility and state officials. Joe Viens of Miramar, Fla., a former state trooper and undercover narc, has a brash, street-wise manner and does Teddy Kennedy impersonations in his native "Baas-ton" accent. But he concedes...
...question no longer began with an if or a maybe. Last week even his top advisers were asking themselves not whether but on what day President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle would step down; rumor swirled throughout war-torn Nicaragua that his leave-taking was hardly hours away. Finally, Somoza himself spoke. "I am like a tied donkey righting with a tiger," he said in a subdued voice at week's end, referring to his war with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). "Even if I win militarily, I have no future." He thus went ahead and placed...
...ease the shortages. Quite the contrary: they know the shortages are what enable them to charge more for oil than anyone would have dreamed possible as the '70s began (the 1970 price per bbl. was $1.80). Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd last week shot down a hopeful rumor that his country would increase production, and Iran is holding exports to barely half of prerevolutionary levels. Oil-industry publications buzz with talk of further cutbacks in Algeria and Libya...
University officials said the developers of parcel 1B, a proposed large-scale commercial development adjoining the apartment building, have been promised first chance at the site. "The rumor currently is that the developer may not be interested in the building," Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice-president for government and community affairs, said last week...
...visiting committee inspecting the Afro-American Studies Department was rumored to be contemplating a bigger change--downgrading the department to committee status. That rumor, and another that Dean Rosovsky favored the change, sparked protest from student groups and Afro-Am professors...