Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeared that neither combatant had the capacity to knock out the other. But nobody was ready to give up either, even though Iraq last week reportedly asked both Turkey and India to mediate a truce, and Iran was considering taking its case against Iraq to an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The apparent reason for Tehran's hesitation: fear that other nations would bring up the embarrassing question of the U.S. hostages...
...sectarian antagonisms of the Middle East. To begin with, the buses were supplied by Israel's implacable foe Iran, which must have needed the vehicles for the war effort back home. Forced to bypass Iraq, which provides the most direct route to Jordan, the drivers headed north to Turkey. There they were delayed for a week because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world, the drivers were probably lucky to have reached the Allenby Bridge at all, much...
Questioners in the audience reminded Frost that the British government loses so much money on its major public industries because it took them over in their death throes--an argument known as the "turkey theory" and often used on this side of the Atlantic to account for the weakness of public transit systems. British Steel's decrepit capital plant makes Bethlehem Steel look like the cutting edge of the new technology, and U.S. producers struggle way behind their Japanese competitors. Can the Tories really believe that selling British Steel to the private sector would suddenly make them competitive...
Another global petroleum price explosion would be bad enough for the U.S. and other industrialized countries. The pain would be far worse for the financially strapped countries of the developing world. Some of the nations needing the largest amount of assistance are Turkey, South Korea and Brazil, which have already climbed up from abject poverty and now desperately need imported oil to fuel their industrialization...
...heating oil and gasoline by as much as 20%, and the Turkish lira, already devalued 66% earlier this year, probably will be devalued even further. The hopeful sign, on the other hand, was that the regime's tight new controls seemed to be winning the confidence of Turkey's Western financial backers. Two U.S. loans totaling $145 million that had been negotiated by the Demirel government went ahead on schedule; Deputy Prime Minister Ozal flew to Washington to sign the notes...