Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present their new price, whatever it is, to the rest of OPEC on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. By far the largest producers in OPEC, they could send prices through the floor if they chose to pump flat out. The threat could bring Nigeria and other wayward nations into line. As Mani Said al-Oteiba, oil minister for the United Arab Emirates, declared after the two-day Riyadh meeting, "If the other OPEC nations do not accept this accord, the gulf states will have to cut the price even more...
According to Strickland. Falwell told his Yale audience last year that "he would relish the idea of coming to Harvard to preach his wayward religion...
...lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...Pentagon has had even less success controlling quality: many of our expensive new toys just don't work. The wayward Pershing II is only one example. A guidance system for the Army's new helicopter (the AH-64) breaks down three times as often as Army specifications permit. The F-18 recently failed its testing program, but the Navy is going to buy it anyway...
...former policewoman, opened the Cheap Detective Agency a year ago in Anaheim, Calif. She borrowed the name from the title of a 1978 Neil Simon movie in which a bumbling Peter Falk spoofs Bogart. For $15 an hour, Short's 22 male and female investigators will shadow a wayward wife, track down a runaway teen or collar an embezzler. The agency has already had nearly 1,000 clients. When a Los Angeles retailer hired her firm to crack an internal theft ring, one of the Cheap Detectives posed as a store employee and gathered evidence that...