Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dunlop's latest flirtation with the more important world in Washington ended this week, when he decided that the old standby, recourse to discussion, was no longer available to mend the gaping hole that President Ford had left in the web of labor-management cooperation that Dunlop labored to create...
...fell in love with long distance." The suffocating mother, Amanda, uses up all the oxygen in any room she enters. The crippled sister, Laura, is as fragile as her tiny glass animals, and the task of the artist-to-be, Tom, is to break out of this enmeshing spider web if he is to salvage his own soul...
Borosage called the CIA a "cancer involved in a web of illegality here and abroad," in his opening remarks at a conference on "Repression and Resistance in the Third World and the Role of United States Foreign Policy...
GERMANY, Western Europe's most influential economy, seems to be caught in a web of indecision. Despite some signs of recovery in recent months, the nation this year will suffer its steepest decline in output, about 3%, since the founding of the Federal Republic after World War II. The forecast for next year calls for real growth in G.N.P. of about 4%. But the upturn is beginning from such a low base-German industry today is operating at only 75% of capacity -that even with that relatively healthy advance the economy will be operating well below optimum levels...
...wanted for murder. Duly it is stated, too, that under police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal status. But from then until Katherina's murder of the newspaperman who has hounded her since the beginning of the case, the web of facts breaks apart in a cascade of "allegedly"s. The ambiguities pile up quickly: The reporter even records a full page of argument between a cook and a secretary about whether their employer will have crepes with poppy seed or creme Brulee for Sunday breakfast. The dispute is never properly settled...