Word: eights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's own security staff of eight has already been beefed up by at least 50 members of Panama's guardia. So far, the Shah has ventured out rarely, but when he goes out for the simplest of reasons, so goes the entourage: when he walked his Great Dane on the island's main beach last week, ten security men walked with hun and a red sedan filled with more guards drove behind. It is a measure of the Shah's exile that in those circumstances any place can feel like home...
...With a general election scheduled for Feb. 18, three-time P.M. Trudeau was ending his brief political retirement to lead the Liberals once again. Before the campaign gets into gear, there is another urgent party matter: Christmas birthdays for both of Michel's brothers. Justin will be eight, Sacha...
...were more painful. The number of salaried employees was reduced to 16 from 50, and the top six managers took a combined pay cut of $71,000 a year. With union support, Broadwater dropped hourly wages to a flat $5, from as much as $6.50. Paid holidays fell to eight from twelve. Vacations, which had averaged five to six weeks annually, were reduced and dropped altogether for the first year. Also axed: the costly pension plan, which had been chewing up $900,000 a year, or between 6% and 7% of the operating budget. Instead, the shareholder-employees chose...
...Congress provides the needed funding, the probe will be carried into earth orbit by the space shuttle in the summer of 1985. Boosted by a conventional rocket, it will fly off toward the comet, gradually accelerated by its cluster of six or eight small ion engines, during the four-month journey. On command from earth, it will drop a small instrument-packed probe provided by the European Space Agency directly into the comet's head, which scientists believe is made up of icy debris and a smattering of organic molecules. Because comets have probably changed little since they were...
...city's Daley Center in mid-November. The work depicts the couple relaxing, with a taped voice coming from the former mayor's figure saying: "Put another log on the fire, Heather. I think it is beginning to snow again. My God, there must be eight feet out there now, Heather. I don't know what to do." After only a few hours of showing, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts had the exhibit covered up and charged the artist with "character assassination." The matter wound up in court. The result: Art 1, City Hall 0. Sefick...