Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dapper and composed Senator Charles Percy of Illinois looking haggard and close to tears. Staring straight into the camera, the onetime presidential aspirant implored millions of unseen viewers: "I got your message and you're right. Washington has gone overboard, and I'm sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your priorities are mine too. Stop the waste. Cut the spending...
...Shah's ambitious modernizing programs created a new-rich class in Iran; many of these people have left with their money. Now he must make himself credible to millions of Iranians who did not share in the country's petroleum-fueled prosperity. At the moment it is doubtful whether in a free referendum he could win a majority to remain as monarch. Still, few can envision Iran without a Shah of some kind or other. "If this one should go," says an Iranian intellectual, "there will soon be another to take his place...
...mildest of the many housing declines that have repeatedly led the economy into recession since World War II. But its impact might be magnified by a reduction in credit-financed buying of other goods, notably cars. Last week General Motors cut its year-end dividend to $2.50 a share, from $3.25 a year ago. GM officials formally clung to their prediction that car sales will total a near record 11.5 million next year, but added that high capital outlays make it wise for the company to conserve cash...
...happened to the white doctor in the Transkei--nominally an independent black state within South Africa--who last month refused to let a black baby into the whites-only hospital? It didn't matter that there were no beds free in the black hospital, he said; the baby could share with another black. Or the white farmer who severely beat his black maid to get her to confess to stealing the madam's purse; it wasn't shocking because he beat her, only because she died of the injuries. It must be some kind of unconscious puberty rite that white...
...Yale victory, coupled with a Dartmouth loss, would mean a share of the league title...