Word: took
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't give a damn about public opinion in our country and by accepting the Shah, deliberately and openly tries to insult our people, our revolution and our ideals. That was intolerable. Then these students felt they had been tremendously insulted and doublecrossed. They acted by themselves. They took the embassy...
...clear, crisp morning promised perfect weather for flying and sightseeing, as Air New Zealand's Flight 901, a gleaming white-and-silver DC-10 with turquoise trim, took off from Auckland Airport. Coddled by a solicitous crew of 20, the 237 passengers settled down to a hefty breakfast as they began an exotic aerial voyage: an eleven-hour, 7,189-mile flight over the savage, frozen scenery of Antarctica. The $365 tourist junket, of a kind that has become popular in Australia and New Zealand in recent years, had been advertised as "a voyage...
Nowhere is the need for this conversion process more acute than in the hulking, old steel industry. Fully 26% of its plant is outdated, and replacing it with the best technology available will require tens of billions of dollars. Last week the largest producer, U.S. Steel, took some belated steps on the route to conversion, at least two years after most of its competitors had already done so. The company by the end of 1981 will shut down 15 older plants and mills in eight states, laying off 13,000 of its 100,000 steelworkers. Among the closings: the Youngstown...
...Naeye speculates that sperm or enzymes in the seminal fluid may somehow aid bacteria in penetrating the cervix and entering the uterus. But both Naeye and obstetricians are cautious about any wholesale proscriptions of sexual activity during pregnancy. They point out that the births studied took place between 1959 and 1966, when the fetal and infant death rate was much higher than now. Thus improved methods of caring for expectant mothers and newborn infants may have obviated some of the harm that could result from sex during pregnancy. Also, the analysis did not take into account the effect of intercourse...
Carter, 44, has been Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs ever since Jimmy Carter (no kin) took office and is a favorite among the always skeptical Washington press corps. "He is the best guy I have seen in his job in 20 years," declares Boston Globe Columnist William Beecher...