Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brussels between U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and high-level Egyptian and Israeli officials ended with the two Middle Eastern countries still at an impasse. But nobody sounded alarmed. Israeli officials said vaguely that they expected the negotiations to resume soon, and even though the Egyptians had spoken of a cooling-off period lasting a couple of months, they stressed that the peace process may be irreversible...
Paul Lyet (pronounced lee-ay) is a plain-spoken fellow, but when he talks to the troops about tomorrow's opportunities he takes on the fervor, if not the glamour, of George C. Scott playing Patton. Sperry expects the 1980s to be an era of tremendous growth, nourished by technology just beginning to emerge from the labs. In five years, computers will be at least twice as fast and capacious as they are today; new airline navigation projects will make travel much safer. Most important, says Lyet, there is large opportunity, fed by need, for U.S. companies to expand...
...heard complaints in December from 'students who were unhappy about taking exams then, but the ones I've spoken to said they had great vacations," Keeton, who was an advocate of the revised calendar, said...
...Kazakh and 65,000 Kirgiz nomads, 7 million Thai-speaking Chuang, a scattering of Miao and Puyi peasants in the southwestern provinces, and caste-conscious Yi clans in Szechwan. Despite Peking's efforts to promote Mandarin as China's common language, the country still has countless spoken dialects...
Lamar Hunt, the soft-spoken Texas mogul behind the pros' World Championship Tennis, feels that McEnroe's rudeness on court is really his way of goading himself on, a theory that the subject confirms. But the technique sometimes works against him. After beating Nastase last week, McEnroe faced Peter Fleming, who is ranked only 27th. And although Fleming is his best friend on the circuit, McEnroe nearly picked a fight during the match, lost his concentration and was whipped in three sets...