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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the end, Hoveida maintained that the policies he carried out for the Shah would have worked had they been given more time. "I should like to stress that if there is need for a victim," he told the court, "I am willing to be it." After his death sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Summary Justice | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Known as "special prosecutors," private lawyers are widely used in Kentucky to assist state prosecutors, especially in murder cases. "There's a feeling in eastern Kentucky that if someone in your family is killed, you're not going to be shamed in the eyes of the rest of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Hired Gun | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

LICHTBLAU: We are not going to run out of oil, but we may run out of suppliers who are willing to give us more, even if it is available. Oil can be denied either for political reasons or because a country simply has no economic interest in increasing production. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Oil Crisis: True or False? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Garry Wills calls himself a conservative, out of convenience. He would rather call himself a "convenientist," a citizen always willing to convene with his countrymen for the public good.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Heart and Head of the Matter | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

The administration blames the problems of the Afro-American Studies department on the lack of professors willing to join the department. but while the University keeps the status and funding of the department so tenuous, it can hardly expect to attract outside professors.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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