Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearances, the peace treaty, every word of which seemed to have been carved on stubborn stone tablets, was complete. The eighth draft of the text, in fact, was put before the Israeli Cabinet for the second time last week and was approved after surprisingly little debate; after hearing some of Washington's latest suggestions for a settlement, which were closely aligned with Sadat...
Another unhappy legacy with which Boumedienne's successor must deal is a generally flaccid population. Boumedienne had the charisma of a stone, and after 13 years of his constant calls for sacrifice, many among Algeria's 18 million have turned off and tuned...
...example, a promoter sold a lithograph stone plate. He figured that it was worth $40,000. But to make it attractive for tax purposes, he agreed to sell it to a partnership of investors for an inflated price of $100,000. They put up only $40,000 in cash and gave over the remaining $60,000 in nonrecourse notes made out to the promoter. Very often these notes were never paid off. Still, the partners got tax writeoffs of $100,000 because the stone depreciated with every print produced...
...American children, the Renaissance is as remote as the Stone...
...diving competition, Harvard's Pamela Stone placed second from both the one and three-meter boards while qualifying for the Large College Nationals in the One-meter event...