Word: travails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predecessor. We could not simply walk away from an enterprise involving two Administrations, five allied countries and 31,000 American dead as if we were switching a television channel. For a great power to abandon a small country to tyranny simply to obtain a respite from our own domestic travail seemed to me-and still seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern of international relations. We could not revitalize the Atlantic Alliance if its governments were assailed by doubt about American staying power. We would not be able...
Almost certainly, McDonnell Douglas will survive the travail of the DC-10. At worst, James ("Old Mac") McDonnell, the company's octogenarian chairman, would close the Douglas division and face a few tough years. Alternatively, the Pentagon could step in with a Lockheed-type federal bailout to protect its No. 1 supplier, though that will probably not be necessary. Military officers who have long been dealing with the company agree on one thing: "Old Mac is probably madder than hell that he ever picked up Douglas...
...coal companies are faring well in spite of the industry's travail. In the West, strip-mine operations have benefited from low labor costs and long-term contracts at profitable rates. But other companies have wound up merely digging up the coal and dumping it on the ground. Utility companies have stockpiled so much that many now have no more room to store the fuel. Meanwhile, the surplus is forcing down contract prices for single shipments, which have tumbled from about $31 a ton a year ago to as little...
Gelsey has been dancing various roles in The Nutcracker for nearly 17 years, but her performance in the Baryshnikov version had special significance. It was her first triumph after a period of physical and emotional travail. While rehearsing the part, immersed in the light-heartedness of make-believe girlhood, Gelsey began doing something that her grim lockstep toward perfection had never allowed before: enjoying herself...
...that we probably are alone. To him, the Bible seems to indicate that the entire universe fell with Adam and Eve and that its redemption is connected with the work of Jesus Christ. For instance, Romans 8: 19-23 ("... we know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"). Perhaps, Fetcho proposes, the UFOs are real but are not visits by space beings-they are, rather, caused by "extradimensionals," that is, demons...