Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More philosophically, Church is somewhat of a fatalist. He contends that the U.S. must face up to the fact that it has limited power to prevent changes in Iran or elsewhere. "This is a volatile world," he says. "The thing we must learn is that the U.S. can live with a great deal of change and upheaval. But the one thing we can't do is to stabilize it. There...
...thing that apparently helped matters was Washington's decision not to take drastic action concerning the sophisticated F-14 fighter planes and Phoenix missiles that belong to Iran. The U.S. Government decided it was more prudent to trust the Khomeini forces with preventing the planes from falling into Soviet hands than to chart a treacherous course of blowing up the planes or seeking to fly them to a safe destination. Pentagon officials said that the critical electronic guidance systems the Soviets would like to confiscate and study have been safely transplanted to secure locations. But the radar dishes along...
...night, to call her own. Indeed, Concetta got fed up with Giuseppe's if-this-is-Wednesday-this-must-be-Fortunata lifestyle, left home and moved in with her father. But divorce? Unthinkable. "Divorce a man like Giuseppe?" she said. "Please, how can you say such a stupid thing...
...investigators are elated by the results, but they caution that questions remain. For one thing, does the drug have any untoward side effects after prolonged use? It is known that kindred chemicals can produce birth defects in animals. Thus the drug faces at least two or three years of careful testing before it can be marketed. Still, for those with recurring severe acne, that may not be too long a wait to be spared a lifetime of misery...
...figure income, Knapp seems every bit the successful American who ought to have confidence that the future will be as good to him as the past has been. But says he: "In 1975 I started to worry about where I could put my money. I say one thing to myself: it's not the franc or gold or silver that is going up, it's the dollar that is going down, and that's what worries me. Soon we will all be making $100,000 a year, and instead of increases in buying power...