Word: scales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shootings prompted a march by 30,000 Sharietmadari followers in Tabriz, the capital of Azerbaijan province, and the march quickly turned into a full-scale revolt. The insurgents seized control of government buildings, the governor's mansion and the local headquarters of the national radio and television station. They sent Khomeini's officials fleeing with the admonition: "You return, you die!" The rebels were joined by local units of the Iranian army and air force and the police, in both Tabriz and the nearby towns in the rugged mountains of the western part of Iran, near the borders...
...best" employer of blacks in the country, he has been prodding its management to respond to a long list of demands. He has attacked Ford's sponsorship of an all-white rugby team and special privileges that start new white employees at the top of the pay scale for a given job while blacks start at the bottom. Botha has also complained to Ford's management about black political disenfranchisement, over which the company has no control...
...line boundary on institutional expansion, drawn in 1976, would have expired January 1. Some city leaders feared Harvard would begin large scale property purchases once the agreement expired...
...world oil prices in 1973-74, something that no mere puppet would ever dare do. He was a despot whose secret police did use torture, as he once admitted to TIME, and who eventually earned the passionate hatred of his people. But his repressions were hardly on the same scale as those of this century's worst tyrants. Probably the Shah's greatest failing was a megalomania that led him to think he could haul Iran from the camel age to the heights of industrial and military technological power in one lifetime, while retaining the political structure...
...Boxing, two tiny figures -moving pictographs about ¾ in. high that can crouch, jump and do battle-face each other and fight. The miniaturization is astonishing. Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is heard. The trouble with Bambino's products is that while the gadgetry is brilliant, the games themselves are not very interesting. The problem is not restricted to Bambino; an observer suspects that in many cases (Microvision and Speak & Spell are notable exceptions), the engineers...