Word: thursday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EVENTUALLY, they compromised. Pushed by Lord Carrington, both the Front and Salisbury representatives came to agree on a general agenda last Thursday. Muzorewa made the larger concession, agreeing to consider both constitutional changes and "pre-independence arrangements" at the conference. His decision to discuss the latter seemed to mean a role for the Front. Front forces, for their part, had to compromise too: they agreed to discuss needed modification in a constitition largely handed down from the days of white rule. For a while, it seemed that the London conference might be on the way to achieving...
...Middlesex Superior Court justice could overturn the council's actions Thursday, however. School committee candidate Alice Wolf filed suit last week seeking an injunction against enforcement of the sign ordinance, claiming it unconstitutionally denied freedom of speech to Cambridge residents...
...only 21 months ago and three times as high as 38 months ago. In London, one frazzled trader termed the heated bidding "wild and irrational." It was no less so at the International Monetary Market in Chicago, where a record 31,591 contracts were posted on Thursday. Buyers also rushed for other precious metals. Silver approached $12 per oz., up from $6 at the beginning of the year...
Amid all the festivities aboard the Delta Queen, there came an ominous telephone call for President Carter at about 8:15 last Thursday night. It was the new Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti. He regretfully told the President a stunning piece of news: he had just ordered the FBI to undertake a preliminary investigation of Carter's two closest White House aides, Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Press Secretary Jody Powell. The reason: an allegation that Jordan had snorted cocaine during a visit to New York City's Studio 54, a celebrated disco club-the first version...
...corners but don't look out of place. Goldfish swim in the fountain, and above the entrance is a sculpted head of a saint. The best time in the courtyard is late spring, when lilacs scent the air. The museum itself contains awesome religious statues and sponsors concerts every Thursday at lunchtime...