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Word: signs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-stalled SALT II treaty to limit nuclear weapons. If all goes well-and White House officials maintained that the changed relations with Peking would not affect the SALT talks?Carter is expected to hold his first summit next month with Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev to sign the pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Stuns the World | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...demonstrations subsided, the struggle between the regime and its opponents became increasingly one of rumor and propaganda. At one point, word spread through Iran's Shi'ite Muslim community that Ayatullah (Sign of God) Qumi of Mashhad had dreamed that he had been visited by Imam Reza, a saint of ancient times. In the dream, Reza complained that Shi'ite Leader Ayatullah Khomeini had been turning Muslim against Muslim and that his teachings were thus running counter to Islamic law. Among the faithful, many were stunned; others dismissed the report as a government trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Hard Choices in Tehran | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...only still lives plain, but Al Coury. 43, talks as tough ("Don't call me back. Just do it") and speaks as straight ("If someone brought me Kiss today on a silver platter, I still wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Thus that first sign of an overextended consumer, a rise in loan delinquency rates, has yet to occur. Mortgage loan delinquencies are at an alltime low, reports Claude Pope, the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the "loan collector" who used to break the thumbs of widows and orphans has been renamed a "loan counselor." But if the economy slows as expected next year, it is going to take an awful lot of counseling to advise the American people about how to carry a trillion dollars of debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spending for a Rainy Day | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...bumped into one another. Slapstick comedy had returned. At a Law Day convention in Portsmouth, R.I., a dozen Boston policemen were discovered cavorting nude in the Ramada Inn pool; unfortunately, the discoverers were a group of visiting parochial school girls led by two nuns. And who can forget the sign that the Las Vegas Hilton hung for a reunion of former Navy aircraft-carrier jet pilots? It should have said, WELCOME TAILHOOKERS. It said, WELCOME HOOKERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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