Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert mimic (she copied her dead-on Southern accent in Joe Tynan from Dinah Shore) and can turn a hilarious pratfall. Her film roles have mainly been those of vulnerable modern women. She has not yet played a period character from a position of strength, but plans to start work on the screen version of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman early next spring...
...rivals fought to unseat him with a passion fueled by personal enmity and ideological distaste for his alliance with Kakuei Tanaka, the former prime minister unseated after the press revealed the Lockheed airplane company's extensive bribery of government officials to gain contracts. Ohira owes much of his factional strength to Tanaka, who threw his supporters behind Ohira after being indicted in 1973. The bribery charges prohibit Tanaka from playing an active role in the LDP, but he can still play kingmaker, at least until his trial...
...latest move in China's campaign to modernize rapidly through building up a technocratic, managerial elite, ending Mao's long-term efforts to eradicate all hierarchy and status inequalities even at the cost of slower growth and inefficiency. Experts also note the testing may be evidence of growing strength within the Chinese hierarchy by the backers of Teng-hsiao Ping, who was intrigued by the massive test-administering bureaucracy he saw when he visited the U.S. Hua Kuo-feng is a known foe of SATS, and the establishment of the tests in China may foreshadow a coming Teng coup...
Walsh said the B.U. decision to make the meet a short course competition contributed to the Harvard loss. Indications of the Crimson's strength in longer races showed up in the Maureen Gildea-Terri Frick-Dove Scherr sweep of the 500-yd. free, and the Frick-Gildea finish in the 200-yd. freestyle...
...Long Beach, Calif., should pace the Crimson in distance freestyle events, while Walsh is depending on Janie Smith, also a yardling, to carry the team in freestyle sprints. Senior Co-captain Jane Fayer, returning this year after missing all of last season with a separated shoulder, should provide additional strength in the sprints...