Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands or the proud big bird that dug its claws into the Secretary's shoulder as they posed together for photographers. The birds were peregrine falcons, and the news was that the Interior Department is going to shelter four of them at its Washington headquarters as a start toward bringing falcons back to the U.S. East Coast, where they were once numerous. That was heartening news for almost everyone except the capital's pigeons. When peregrines are not digging claws into Interior Secretaries, pigeons are what they love...
...handed down a ten-day injunction blocking further payments to General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...
...letter also assailed the country's only remaining newspaper (owned by the Somoza family) and the government radio station for an "inflammatory media campaign" depicting the foreign press as "part of the vast Communist propaganda network." Wrote the correspondents: "This is a blatant lie. It foments hostility toward us and makes our work even more dangerous than it already...
...propaganda tasks" throughout the trip and that their stories, even those in nominally independent church publications, would be scrutinized by two five-man censorship teams. The document also recommended that a group of Polish journalists be assigned as propagandists to accompany "certain Western newsmen who show a hostile bias toward...
...best places to get such training is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. Embry-Riddle (E-RAU) is the world's only accredited four-year college devoted solely to aviation. Some 3,400 students enrolled this spring at its Daytona campus, most of them working toward a B.S. degree by studying subjects such as pilot training, plane design and aircraft maintenance. The school also offers courses in history and basic science. "Embry-Riddle is to aviation what the Harvard Business School is to the corporate world," boasts Vice President Dick Queenan, a former executive of Pan American...