Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convincing statistics, but by last week the squabbling had degenerated into some of the nastiest transatlantic name-calling in years. The West German Economics Minister, Count Otto Lambsdorff, expressed "surprise and regret" at the U.S. subsidy. One of his assistants captured the prevailing sentiment: "It hurts when your friends stab you in the back." In Washington, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet led a weeklong parade of protesting diplomats through the White House. François-Poncet got a mere 15-minute meeting with President Carter, and that reflected the crisp indifference that the Administration seemed...
Both Kennedy's and Carter's plans make a desperate stab at trying to control the alarming rise in health costs. Carter's assumes passage of the hospital cost containment bill and it might also require that the fees charged by physicians be negotiated by the Secretary of HEW and a board composed of consumers, insurers and health care representatives. In essence, Kennedy advocates giving the Government veto power over payment scales worked out on a state basis through bargaining among the insured, the insurances, the doctors and hospitals...
...action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman and not a fascist dictator; one girl, not three, will play Juliet; and Romeo will stab Tybalt with a sword, not a sausage...
...order to aid in his decision, Huntsman is giving the J.V. another stab at the varsity in this morning's practice...
Herbig was found with stab wounds in the chest and abdomen at 4 a.m. on January 17, and died in the emergency room of the George Washington Hospital a little more than an hour later...