Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On the surface, such a venture seems nothing short of fiscal madness. For every dream horse like Seattle Slew (auction price: $17,500; payoff on the Triple Crown races alone: $462,380), there are thousands of also-rans and tens of thousands of never-rans. As a rule, only 5...
Most New Yorkers, from silk-stocking districts to scabrous ghettos, responded with neighborliness and even bravery. But what shocked the city, and much of the world, was that tens of thousands of blacks and Hispanics poured from their tenements and barrios?in 16 areas?to produce an orgy of looting...
This week a seven-member federal commission that has studied the invasion of privacy for nearly two years will issue a 654-page report showing that the problem is far worse than most people think. The report touches on the threat to privacy that stems from Government gumshoes but concentrates...
The figures are there if one wants them. It is estimated that more than 300,000 people have been in and out of the Shah's prisons during his 19-year reign; an average of 1,500 people are arrested each month. Amnesty International reported in 1975 that "the Shah...
Hanoi has been unable to devote its full attention to these pockets of armed resistance because much of its army is tied down battling a onetime ally: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, who are trying to annex Vietnamese districts contiguous to Cambodia in order to regain control over the tens...