Word: marathoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third day, the whole conference moved into Yamani's hotel suite for a marathon twelve-hour session. While the Saudi minister padded back and forth serving English tea, and his guests munched on Algerian dates, an idea was floated to lift Arabian light oil to $26 as a new floor price, but fix a ceiling at $30. This was rejected by Libya, Algeria and Iran...
...known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses for six days of marathon sit-ins. "Hands off the student union!" they chanted...
...Club, Boston Marathon...
...MARATHON...
...woman ran for safety; Mullins, pausing only to pull on his underwear, gave chase. By then the police were on the scene. But Mullins was not through yet: in the final act of his rampage, he knocked one of the officers unconscious. If Mullins was tired after his crime marathon, so was the police computer. His rap sheet came to 42 pages, mostly for drug possession and shoplifting. Later, after listening to the detectives' version of the story, Mullins said he could not possibly have done it, it must have been someone else. The new charges-altogether eleven-include...