Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come, compensation quickly followed. U.S. military assistance soared to a total of $3 billion in 1973-74. After Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy failed last March, the flow of strategic and tactical weaponry to Israel began to dry up, and so did the delivery of spare parts for existing materiel. A $2.5 billion Israeli request for military and economic aid was shelved while the U.S. undertook a "reassessment" of its Middle East policy...
This week, a decade after Houston opened its Astrodome and pronounced it the Eighth Wonder of the World, New Orleans will stage the "grand opening" of its 97,365-capacity Louisiana Superdome, which could absorb the 66,000-seat Astrodome with room to spare. Last week Pontiac, Mich., opened its 80,400-seat, $55.7 million Metropolitan Stadium, 25 miles northwest of Detroit, with an exhibition football game between the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs. Seattle hopes to complete the dome on the 60,000-seat, $60 million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season...
...bulk of the U.S. harvest is reaped and counted in September. Butz emphasized that "we do want to sell more to the Soviet Union" and said that if current U.S. crop forecasts prove correct, "it will easily be within our capacity to do so." Still, the U.S. could hardly spare the entire amount that the Soviets want without serious inflation...
...clock shadow belonged to Actress Karen Black, 33, who had dressed up as a male homosexual for a film by Sherwin Tilton, 22, a student at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Black, who collects up to $150,000 per picture these days, donated a spare Sunday to Tilton's project after he had asked her to be his leading lady in a $7,000 movie entitled Owen. She agreed, provided she could be a leading man instead. "It's an exciting challenge for an actress, and really fun trying to project the male outlook...
...spare time, Solano has been collecting signatures for the nomination papers. He said he hopes to have about 100 signatures, although the required number to be on the ballot...