Word: vides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff is large enough - 445 reporters, stringers and editors - to pro vide the most comprehensive coverage of any South American paper. Despite a dull format, the paper is required reading for Brazil's professional classes. Such prestige brings in more advertising than O Estado can use. Though circulation is modest (198,000 daily, 300,000 Sunday), earnings this year may total $5.4 million...
They are forced to try to meet demands for long-term loans at a time when a distressingly large amount of their deposits are very short term, and the outcome cannot be good if that continues. Shifting OPEC money into longer-term accounts would pro vide what First National City Bank Chairman Walter Wriston calls "the quietude of markets." Beyond that, getting equity in vestments from oil producers can be more profitable for company managers than borrowing at inflated interest rates...
...announced last year, to live in Ireland, at least for half the year. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Irish Republic exempts writers from income taxes, said Sagan, who has had trouble holding on to her royalties in the past. "C'est vide [It's empty]," she exclaimed...
Nature abhors its vacuums, and man cannot abide free-floating guilt. But scapegoats are getting harder to find these days (vide Richard Nixon and his Watergate problems). After My Lai, the U.S. Army thought they had a pretty good sacrificial offering in Lieut. William Calley-until corrosion began eating its way up the chain of command. The Army's containment plan was not helped by Journalist John Sack, who moved in with Calley for one of those total immersions that have become the baptismal rites of the New Journalism...
...about Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter Lynn Seymour who, by some accounts, escaped execution at the hands of the Bolsheviks and as Anna Anderson spent years unsuccessfully trying to prove that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The first two acts, using music by Tchaikovsky, pro vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction and Martinu's sweet and sour Fantaisies Symphoniques). A distraught Anna...