Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the U.S. has become their permanent home. "The Cuba most of us would like to return to no longer exists," observes one Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign-off. But more significantly, the Cuban exiles are becoming U.S. citizens at the rate of 1,000 per month. And of these, 80% are registering to vote...
...vast amounts of their financial resources to the oil exporters unless they were ready to see a shift of the globe's geopolitical balance. The OPEC nations, with great financial clout, would be able to wield decisive influence in the world's political councils and could become arbiters in tune of crisis. The mood of urgency was intensified at midweek, when Kuwait and Venezuela announced further tax increases of 3.5% on the oil that they export...
...organizational dispute broke into the open at an inopportune tune for the P.L.O. Only last month Sadat and other Arab leaders agreed that the P.L.O., rather than Hussein, should be sole spokesman for Palestinians on the West Bank (which was annexed by Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah in 1950 and held by Jordan until Israel seized it during...
Indeed, with a little help from their friends and families, the majority of women lose little tune getting back into the swing of things after their operations. Mrs. Aks swims and plays golf...
Carnegie's new organ will do that in a way not obvious to the average listener. Different orchestras often have different pitches. The standard middle A, to which most orchestras tune, is 440 cycles per second. But the Vienna Philharmonic, for example, tunes to 445 for a brighter sound, while the New York Philharmonic prefers 441. Since the pitch of an ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn...