Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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graduated 214th in his West Point class of 310. But after that his career was meteoric. Though he saw combat in Korea...
...group decided to bid for Navajo rather suddenly. Rita Schwinghamer saw a newspaper story announcing that the town would be sold at auction the following day by its owners, a family of local ranchers. "We thought it would be a good idea to buy," says Rita. They did not have time to visit Navajo, a 250-mile drive from Phoenix, but did look it up on a map. Their bid of $615,000 was the best submitted by eleven prospective buyers, including a Baltimore nightclub owner who wanted to turn the town into a haven for retired strippers...
...economic success of the Reagan Administration will depend on the continued support of the American public for an austerity program. Lester C. Thurow questioned whether voters would stick with such policies unless they quickly saw tangible results in the form of rising standards of living. He believes that the U.S.'s recent shift to economic conservatism may quickly evaporate. Said he: "The question is how long will the conservative era have to prove itself before the public kicks it out and tries something else. If the conservative policies cannot work relatively quickly, people will cease being conservatives...
...were much more favorable than those offered by any other country. Last week Brezhnev agreed to supply India with the 2.5 million tons of crude oil it desperately needs next year to help compensate for the oil that warring Iran and Iraq have failed to deliver. As New Delhi saw it, not mentioning Afghanistan in Brezhnev's presence was little enough to pay for that bonanza...
...Liebling did not think he was an innovator but a perpetuator of a writing tradition at least as old as Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Liebling's prose remain s Raymond Sokolov convincing because it rarely asks the reader to believe more than the author saw, heard, smelled, touched and, of course...