Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sprayed-on toxins. The alarm system is here to stay. It would be foolhardy as well as foolish to suggest that it be shut down; it is, in truth, indispensable for guiding those who wish guidance. What is needed is a strategy for getting through life passably happy de spite all the ominous background chatter...
...political booby prize of 1979 should be shared by President Carter and Secretary Vance for giving a visa to the Shah of Iran, in spite of being warned by both the Iranians and some experts in the State Department that such action would greatly upset the present rulers of Iran. The U.S. cannot afford to have a President with such poor judgment...
There is little chance, however, that Canada will soon raise its net oil sales to the U.S., now a rather modest 100,000 bbl. a day, (vs. 425,000 bbl. from Mexico). Dedicated to energy independence and fearful that conventional oil will decline in spite of the recent finds, Canada is not even fully exploiting Alberta's capacity of 1.8 million bbl. a day. Says Mitchell Sharp, the commissioner of Canada's Northern Pipeline Agency: "The U.S. should drop any ideas it might have about a North American energy common market...
...pick and choose from the multitude of storefronts, but behind each is an owner who spends six or seven days a week there, 52 weeks a year. Often the owners are the shop's only employees, working 12 hours a day and worrying the rest. In spite of their labor, roughly a third of these small proprietorships go bankrupt within a year after they open and another third closes within five years. The mom-and-pop merchants try again and again, however, anxious to feed, clothe and bejewel us in order to nurse their infant stores along, maybe hoping that...
...turned out, however, Coach Stephanie Walsh didn't really have anything to worry about, in spite of having to plan her line-up without co-captain Jane Fayer, and freshman Caroline Adams and Kathy Davis...