Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter claimed at the recent AFLCIO convention (11/15/79) that "We have done nothing for which any administration need apologize." Does President Carter fail to recall that in 1953, the popular government of Dr. Mossadegh was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat orchestrated by the American administration through the Central Intelligence Agency? Has he forgotten that on June 5th, 1962, more than 10,000 innocent people were shot to death by the American-advised Iranian army? Does he not remember congratulating the Shah on the morning after Black Friday, September 8th, 1977, when the Shah's army shot down...
During one, a Central Park production of Measure for Measure, she worked with John Cazale, a respected actor known to film audiences for his role as the cowardly son Fredo in The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. They fell in love and began living together. Actor Joe Grifasi, a friend of both at the time, says: "Meryl admired his ability to cut through the crap and focus on the essentials. He was very careful to maintain his equilibrium." They spent as much time together as their careers permitted; the summer of 1977 found them in Steubenville, Ohio, working...
...acute last week. That was because of an action by an eleven-member international financing syndicate headed by the Chase Manhattan Bank. The syndicate voted to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default for failure by Tehran to pay some $4 million in interest charges. The Iranian central bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest was owed, but that the U.S.'s freezing of its assets had prevented the transfer. Asserted an official bank statement...
Packages move; Gelco bought a courier service that in fiscal 1979 did $65 million in business and, helped by mass marketing and computerized control, may top $95 million next year. People move; Grossman is building a service by which corporate travel will be handled by a central reservation and billing service. He also watches over that wondrous American institution: the expense account. Companies can require that salesmen and others on the expense account submit their claims to Gelco's computers, which check them for any excesses...
...evening congregation in Kiev's Central Baptist Church wears citified clothes, and the singing is more sedate...