Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...obviously difficult task so long as the hostages remain in Iran. Ironically, no one sounded more eager to send the Americans home last week than I.R.P. Leader Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, who had previously been instrumental in prolonging the crisis. Said Beheshti: "The U.S. has to a large extent met our demands. There is now no basic catch in reaching a final solution...
...thirsting nations of the Third World, the skyrocketing price of petroleum has threatened the virtual bankruptcy of whole economies, destabilized political systems, and even toppled governments. At one extreme, the social unrest that led to this year's military coup in Turkey was fueled, to a considerable extent, by the inability of that nation to maintain normal economic growth in the face of ever higher prices for imported oil. The Iranian revolution, on the other, was spurred by precisely the opposite problem: a far too rapid, and socially disruptive, industrial development that was made possible by inflated oil prices...
...field, he notes that "in the past, either you towed the party line and wrote about, things you didn't want to write about, or you didn't write." Today, censoring of journalism is reduced; writers are responsible for their own opinions to a much greater extent...
Della Terza said he felt it his "duty" to alert the Harvard community to the extent of the suffering in Italy. He urged those who wish to help to contact the American Red Cross in Boston...
Everyone agrees that to some extent the Reagan margin over Carter grew in the last few days before the election. But they disagree over how much, when and why. Indeed, reading from the same computer printouts, CBS News...