Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Coop is the only men's store in Cambridge to continue stocking Farah jeans in spite of a nationwide boycott...
...charges were dropped, but not the story. And that was when George was still a relative newcomer to the spotlight. "We're all very private people," says Ann, "and the idea of being the President's son or daughter is a very overwhelming thing." But in spite of their qualms, the four daughters are presently campaigning in their own way, and the son is expected to pitch in at headquarters. The lineup...
...they enjoy his human fallibilities as well. George, they say, has a "corny sense of humor" that causes them to groan more than laugh. They also imply his taste in movies runs to schmaltz: he has seen Doctor Zhivago six times, they claim. Ann in particular worries that in spite of his morning exercises ("jumping jacks") and his nightly bowl of Wheaties, Father George "has a tendency to be too thin...
...keep its economic ties with Taiwan, which is still a bigger market (more than $760 million a year) for Japanese goods than China ($578 million). But Taiwan's trade arteries to Japan could eventually harden, with serious implications for the regime's viability. In a gesture of spite, thinly masked as a move to reduce Taiwan's $600 million Japanese trade deficit, Taipei ordered importers to begin shopping in Europe and the U.S. for machinery and other materials they used to buy in Japan...
...terrorism. Fearing attacks even inside the U.N., bodyguards sat close to some foreign ministers scattered among the 131 delegations; gallery visitors were closely screened and carefully watched. Vulnerable figures like Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban moved amid the tightest security since Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.N. in 1960. In spite of that clear and present evidence of the insidious, pervasive nature of terrorism, Assembly delegates gave only a palsied response to Rogers' proposals for doing something about...