Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because everyone has to get home before the 9 p.m. curfew, the cocktail hour begins and ends earlier. Conversation, in more fashionable circles, tends to center on the shortage of butane gas for cooking and whether to stay and support the Shah or get out. Then everyone says their thanks and farewells and leaves, only to become snarled in a huge traffic jam on their way home. Promptly at 9 the shrill of the traffic gives way to silence and a long low rumble: the Shah's tanks are once again rolling into position...
After considering every possible alternative, the Shah has made up his mind to stay in Iran with his people. He does not believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about...
...folks on the home front prepared to be told of gal grunts and female flyers coming home in pine boxes? Unless Americans can handle that, all the peacetime combat training in the world won't be worth a spent bullet, because the G.I. Janes are going to stay home...
...Association of Home Builders forecast that housing starts, which have run just below 2 million annually in both 1977 and 1978, will fall to 1.5 million next year. Main reason: mortgage interest rates already average more than 10% nationwide, and may have to climb as high as 11% to stay roughly in line with other rates; but in states containing just under half of the U.S. population, usury laws limit many mortgage lenders to 10% or less. NAHB Economist Michael Sumichrast believes that these lenders, unable to earn a competitive interest rate, will simply stop making house-buying loans...
...agencies that are not big enough to compete with the leaders and not agile enough to beat out the small fry. In the future, predicts Interpublic President Philip Geier Jr., "there will be a lot of large companies and a lot of small ones." And Interpublic, he believes, will stay...