Word: thursday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy, his own Administration, the national mood?and himself. Toward week's end, while aides were drafting the Sunday-night TV speech that he hoped would rally the nation, the President lent confusion to the proceedings by twice vanishing from his mountain by helicopter to confer with ordinary citizens. Thursday night he descended on the Carnegie, Pa., home of Machinist William Fisher and his wife Bette, and sipped lemonade with their friends on the back porch for 90 minutes. Friday morning he swooped into Martinsburg, W. Va., where he called on Marvin Porterfield, a retired Marine major and disabled veteran...
...closed at $33 a share on the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday, up from $18 a share in March...
...Last Thursday students from Weld 30 filed a complaint with the police for over $100 that was missing from their suite. Brian Taraz, a Summer School student, said he and his roommates then told Buildings and Grounds not to let anyone clean the inside of their rooms...
Against that background, the heads of government of the non-Communist world's seven strongest industrial powers ?Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, West Germany and the U.S.?will convene Thursday in Tokyo's ornate Akasaka Palace to consider what they might do. The meeting, fifth in a series of annual summits devoted to economics, was scheduled before the latest oil crisis broke, but it will be so dominated by petroleum worries that it is being called the energy summit. For Jimmy Carter, the meeting will be especially critical; American voters are far more irate about the gasoline shortage...
...final marathon negotiating session ended at 2 a.m. Thursday, but the treaty documents could not be taken to Vienna until midday Friday. One reason: the Soviets in Geneva had to make do with primitive manual typewriters, cumbersome paper almost as thick as cardboard and a 1950s-vintage copying machine. If a typist made a single error, the page had to be retyped. The Americans used a high-speed word-processing machine; errors could be corrected almost instantaneously...