Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...west, not east, for all that." Though Rasdorf and Geisa are in plain sight of each other, telephone calls between them take up to eight hours to complete, and getting from one to the other-if a visiting permit for Geisa is granted-is now a 154-mile drive instead of a 20-min. walk...
Banisadr said he was pretty tired of it all too. In a speech before Iranian customs workers, he accused his rivals of wasting time and resources instead of responding to the country's desperate need for economic reconstruction. He said he was staying on as President only because he considered it his duty. Said he: "If I had freedom of choice, I would not stay in office a single moment...
Modestly spurning the trappings of power, Doe has stopped using Tolbert's presidential Mercedes-Benz limousine except for rare ceremonial, occasions. Instead, he drives around town hi a Chevrolet Chevette, sometimes heading out alone for late-night excursions. Doe is said to be wearying of the demands of political office. "If it were up to him, the soldiers would be back in the barracks by Christmas," says a friend...
...into trust. Within a week after that announcement was made, South land's stock rose 46%, to $102. In a variant of Pickens' idea, Houston Oil & Minerals set up a trust combining older wells and an interest in 40 major prospects, mostly how the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of giving the shares to its stockholders, how ever, thereby Oil & Minerals sold them on the open market. The firm thereby raised $60 million, which it used to wipe out some of its long-term debt...
...such as Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel and later, Mary McFadden. Then, in a move that shocked other retailers, she instructed them to design clothes that would fit only the slender. Bendel catered to women almost as thin as fashion models with dress sizes that ranged from 2 to 10. Instead of driving away business, the move gave the store a certain cachet. In 1979 Bendel earned $1.4 million on $15 million in sales...