Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movable Assets. Pao's surge adds greatly to the biggest shipbuilding boom since World War II. While others find it hard to get keel space in shipyards at any price, Pao continues to stagger his competitors with orders on a scale that few can match. Because he pays top dollar, places orders in such great quantity and has cultivated close ties with owners of Japanese shipyards, he usually manages to obtain space. Last week he announced his latest deal-six supertankers totaling 1.5 million tons to be built by a consortium of five Japanese shipyards. The price: $180 million...
...Stomach Ache guerrilla theatre group will present several political skits after the speeches and a communal dinner featuring "Stagger Lee," a filmed interview with Seale, will follow the rally...
...Director George Schaefer let audiences know they are not quite serious. The story concerns itself with the sordid vagaries of a small group of California physicians and their spouses. The husbands have their mistresses, the wives their lovers, and both share a set of suburban hangups that would stagger the late Grace Metalious. The game of musical beds ends when one of the doctors finds his wife (Dyan Cannon) in bed with a colleague (George Gaynes). With somewhat more glee than is usual on such occasions, he shoots them both with a single bullet. The ensuing scandal threatens the philandering...
...list down to 18 names. After interviewing the owners of these names, he will cut the list down to 13. He wants to interview me. After a few incoherent replies to his questions, I ask if I can return later after getting some sleep. He smiles graciously. I stagger back to my room and fall into a sleep of depression...
...silence, the sun reappears as a long, slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with color as wild flowers bloom. Big bears stagger out of hibernation. Rivers teem with salmon, grayling and char. Caribou march in long single files toward new feeding grounds. Glacial ice glitters like emeralds and sapphires. The world seems reborn...