Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, the Carter Administration scrambled to regain its lost leverage. Until now, the Administration's long-range goal has been a Geneva conference at which all parties would attempt to negotiate a comprehensive settlement. Pushed by Sadat's moves, the U.S. has shifted to a two-track strategy: it continues to advocate a Geneva conference, but now accepts Sadat's view that any initiative that might produce results is worth supporting. In the words of one high Administration official, Geneva is no longer a "sacred, juridical" goal; there could be lesser conferences, which might then be ratified...
Though police often track down these producers through tips from shocked and disgruntled PCP users, they have another way of finding the labs. Some solvents used in turning out PCP are so volatile that L.A. police have zeroed in on several labs simply by following up fire-department reports of suspicious explosions...
From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...
They're just so amazing. Coming of last year's indifferent 2-4 season, the born-again Harvard indoor track team has christened its now pink-and-white sports palace by devastating its first three opponents by progressively cataclysmic scores...
...then came the grudge match against Brown. A word or two about Brown is in order here. Last year the Crimson track team trudged down to Providence on he last day of the fall term, with its ranks therefore depleted, only to lose a thriller to the Bruins in the last event, the two-mile relay...