Word: yeare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after derecognition, some links are stronger than ever
...countries in the area where liquor is sold-has, in deference to Muslim tradition, just opened an interest-free Islamic bank and banned male hairdressers from attending to women. The Amir of Kuwait has promised that his country's national assembly, "suspended" since 1976, will be reopened next year...
...year since the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Peking and consequently "derecognized" the Republic of China, the abandoned embassy in Taipei has come to symbolize the passing of the American era. Yet Taiwan has demonstrated a robust self-reliance during the past year, and its relationship with Washington has changed far more in form than in substance. Though the formal U.S. presence is gone and its last legal vestige, the Mutual Defense Treaty, is due to expire next week, other links are thicker than ever. "Both sides," says an American resident in Taiwan, "are playing the new game...
...This year, trade between the two countries is expected to reach an impressive total of $9.6 billion, up from $7.4 billion in 1978; it has made Taiwan the U.S.'s eighth largest trading partner. By contrast, two-way trade between the People's Republic of China and the U.S. this year will amount to $1.8 billion. Washington has quietly but systematically encouraged the bilateral trade boom. Among major recent deals: the Export-Import Bank, which sent a delegation to the island this fall, extended $500 million worth of loans during 1979. Since January, American banks have also contributed...
...face of it, Law 815 hardly seemed a piece of villainous legislation. Passed last year to help raise Greek universities to European standards, it addressed some of the problems of an educational system that is widely recognized to be a shambles. But each successive reform roused the ire of either the faculty or the students or both. Under the law, for example, all professors, who have long reigned supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution...