Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Shagari's clout was evident at the July summit of the Organization of African Unity in Freetown, Sierra Leone. When the organization threatened to founder over the divisive issue of Morocco's war against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis...
The new economic measures, however, were noticeably less popular. To cut consumption, the government raised prices for heating oil and gasoline by as much as 20%, and the Turkish lira, already devalued 66% earlier this year, probably will be devalued even further. The hopeful sign, on the other hand, was...
The half-crazed Soviet spy master who spells out his Plan is pure fiction, the creation of Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used...
Putting a stop to that speculation clearly required more than a hotline phone call. Thus Agee last week summoned a meeting of company staff to dispel the rumors that his new vice president had become a most favored employee. "I know it has been buzzing around that Mary Cunningham'...
Agee has frequently promoted young people more on the basis of their future promise than on their past performance. Last year, for example, he appointed Bernard B. Winograd, 28, corporate treasurer. A determined Agee told TIME: "Our policy is, and will continue to be, to promote the most qualifed people...