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...incident occurred at the height of American public outrage over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran's refusal to release the 50 hostages being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Jimmy Carter had just announced a program of sanctions against the Soviet Union, including an embargo on shipments of grain to the U.S.S.R., and U.S. longshoremen were balking at handling any Soviet cargoes. Then, Local 160 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) posted a notice on a bulletin board at the Kennedy tower urging members not to guide Soviet or Iranian aircraft...
...press release does not detail how the land will eventually be used. "Several Cambridge officials and citizens have urged the University to consider building on this site in a manner compatible with the density and height of the adjoining residential neighborhood," the release quotes Schmidt as saying...
...They need males above a certain height, that's about it, actually. Timing has a lot to do with it, because if they're beginning a production which needs a lot of people, it's possible they'll just take you over the phone...
...ceiling--top to bottom is something like ten stories. The entire set rolls back and to the sides, so they can change whole sets in the middle of an act. Also, it's divided into several smaller pieces horizontally which can each be set at a different height. The Met is proud of spending fortunes of money because it's not the Met if they have to cheapen it. And in a way, it's a good thing, because it's one of the four best companies in the world, and arguably the best...
When Bazargan resigned to protest the capture of the hostages, the Ayatullah made the Revolutionary Council the government in name as well as fact. Then, during the holy month known as Muharram, with popular emotion at a frenzied height as a result of the confrontation with the U.S., Khomeini expertly managed a vote on a new constitution that turned Iran into a theocracy. Approved overwhelmingly in a Dec. 2-3 referendum, the constitution provided for an elected President and parliament, but placed above them a "guardian council" of devout Muslims to make sure that nothing the elected bodies do violates...