Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again the antihegemony issue threatened the talks. But when Fukuda dispatched Sonoda last week to Peking in a last-ditch attempt at compromise, the Chinese suddenly agreed to a rewording, declaring that the treaty "does not affect [either party's] relations with third countries." The Japanese foreign office was jubilant, claiming that its views had been "accepted...
...should look like rain, but not rain." Even television is credited with doing its bit by driving people out of the house with its stale summer reruns. Perhaps most important of all, last year's string of mega-hits-Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind-has helped put the public back into the movie habit. Says 20th Century-Fox Senior Vice President Ashley Boone: "People are enjoying themselves. I don't know whether they are cheering for the swimmers or the sharks, but they are cheering...
...deal: inflation may turn out to be no worse than expected this year. That about sums up the import of the news last week of a slowdown in wholesale-price increases in July. The month's annual rate of 6.2% was about a third less than the rises in May and June, and the smallest jump in four months...
...more protesters were arrested on the access road leading to the construction site, and a third group chained themselves to a sign just outside the site...
...head was accompanied by the headline, IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS MAGAZINE, WE'LL KILL THIS DOG. Off-Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter to the editor in which "Larry Flynt" referred to himself as "the George Wallace of porn." With this kind of animus, it is no wonder that the Lampoon...