Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson said that the nuclear power industry could easily handle the cost because "it's not in that bad financial shape...
...with the U.S. In an increasingly difficult world?Indochina lost, Russian détente severely strained, Southern Europe threatened by Communism, and murky battles looming with the Third World?the U.S. basically wants to know whether, in the long run, China will be friend or foe. The man who will shape a large part of the answer is Teng...
Henry Kissinger once called him "the greatest statesman of our era." Indeed, few men in the 20th century did more than Chou En-lai to forge the Chinese revolution and to change the shape of international politics. Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy. As the chief architect of China's foreign policy under Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he charted Peking's course of independence from the two superpowers, creating in the process a new world center of power and influence. Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian...
Telling. The setup is likely to last until 1978, when Wood is expected to step down. Though Sears has problems, it is in generally good shape; last week the company reported that sales during the four-week period ended Dec. 27 totaled a record $1.7 billion. Analyst Walter Loeb of the Manhattan investment banking house of Morgan Stanley believes the new office will enable Sears' key officers to concentrate more intensively on sprucing up the firm's product styles, merchandising techniques and customer relations...
...think a great deal," she confessed to Clive Bell, "of how I shall re-form the novel and capture multitudes of things at present fugitive, enclose the whole, and shape infinite strange shapes...