Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iraq is a tough socialist police state. Political troublemakers disappear routinely. Nobody knows how many political prisoners are behind bars, but last summer the Bakr regime celebrated its tenth anniversary by releasing 7,000 of them. The Baath Party's strongest opponents are the Communists, of whom at least 3,000 have been killed since...
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is a rugged road for fashion retailers. Those that have failed in the past decade include Best & Co., Arnold Constable and Peck & Peck. Now one of the street's very biggest names will disappear: Bonwit Teller. For most of its 80-year history, Bonwit's specialized in dressing well-heeled women in genteel elegance. But the store moved from mere affluence to a position of real fashion influence in the 1960s, when its sharp-tongued president, Mildred Custin, decided that Bonwit's should take the lead in promoting the designs of such...
...show how much he can get away with. Movies like this aren't very entertaining if they're not stylish or suspenseful; Crichton's stupid, stilted dialogue precludes style; the Mission: Impossible predictability, sluggish editing, and surprising number of loose ends strangle suspense. Characters inexplicably appear and disappear--dragged in when convenient and cruelly discarded two minutes later--and the lapses in logic suggest the film was mauled in the editing room...
With this winter's sudden spate of gasoline shortages now beginning to disappear, can motorists count on a hassle-free spring and summer on the highway? Hardly. By Memorial Day or shortly thereafter, shortages may start appearing all over again...
...U.C.L.A., for example, Iranian students complain of "racist" graffiti aimed at them. At Indiana University, undergraduates threatened to file suit against the school, charging that they could not understand lectures given by foreign graduate students serving as instructors. The Government, for its part, finds that many visiting students disappear and become part of the U.S.'s alien population...