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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only 26% feel certain that the election results next year will cause a major improvement in economic conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy's Lead Is Shrinking | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Although the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Last week Seoul government circles quietly leaked a third, more elaborate version of the murder story, this one involving General Chung. According to this widely circulated, "semiofficial" account, Kim tried to persuade Chung to join the conspiracy, declare martial law and mobilize certain military forces, presumably for the purpose of taking over the country. According to these reports, Chung refused and ordered the arrest of Kim and his coconspirators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Mourning and Post-Mortems | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...United Auto Workers: $203 million, representing money that the UAW has agreed to forgo in its new three-year contract. Included is a delay in phasing in certain wage and benefit increases that G.M. and Ford workers are already receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Loss, Bigger Bailout | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...more interesting are the female vocalist tracks. Fleetwood Mac has always been at its best in the slow, seductive songs of Stevie Nicks and the more assertive but somehow also more despairing ones by Christine McVie. Between the two a certain tension exists which keeps the group from sinking totally into the morass of '70s pop. Nicks plays the Looking for Mr. Goodbar-waif, on her eternal cruise for romantic fulfillment, while McVie acts The Unmarried Woman, imagining herself to be above love but actually despairing over her lack...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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