Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wore a gray suit and had an unkempt beard. He said his kidnappers had broken his hearing aid when he was seized in a west Beirut street May 7 and he could not hear well...
...scandal-loving British press was gleeful, especially the News of the World. Its story included transcripts of phone conversations that had Archer suggesting that Coghlan wear a green leather suit and meet a friend of his at London's Victoria Station. After accepting an envelope stuffed with (pounds)50 notes in view of a long-lens camera, however, the woman returned it, telling both Archer's envoy and a hidden microphone, "I can't keep running...
Last week a U.S. district court dismissed the suit. "There are only very limited ways to draw the figure of a cartoon ghost," said Judge Peter Leisure. But the ghost could come back to haunt another judge because Harvey may appeal the ruling...
...researcher and soon became a producer of documentaries. As head of the CBS Reports unit, he oversaw acclaimed documentaries like the five-part series The Defense of the United States, as well as The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the program that triggered a much publicized libel suit by General William Westmoreland. (Though Stringer did not have a major hand in the documentary, Westmoreland's lawyers revealed that in an off-the-record talk with a reporter he had voiced doubts about the objectivity of the program's producer, George Crile...
...much at ease in a tailored business suit as in a traditional flowing Bedouin thobe, or lengthy shirt, Yamani was the chief architect of the 1973-74 OPEC oil embargo. That historic action, which drastically cut back OPEC exports to several Western nations, including the U.S., more than quadrupled oil prices within 15 months and caused a severe global slump and then nearly a decade of rising inflation. By 1979, however, OPEC was already slipping from Saudi control. In that year the fall of the Shah of Iran led to a second worldwide oil shock, which nearly doubled prices once...