Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Anderson is cutting this week's West Coast trip short to study briefing books containing his own programs, his past statements on issues, and his opponents' positions. Said he: "I see the debate as an opportunity not so much to talk about Carter's record or Reagan's, but to tell the public what I have to offer...
John Anderson, a preacher of sorts, confessed after 20 years in the House of Representatives that he had grown discouraged and bored. Now he has made America think a bit more and found an audience he never dreamed he would have. Despite being short of everything from money to time, he loves...
QATAR. Throughout the 4,400-sq.-mi. desert peninsula in eastern Arabia, the land does not rise higher than 360 ft. above sea level; the average annual rainfall is a scant 4 in., falling mostly in short cloudbursts in winter. Slowly, with great care, a modern state is being built. Qatar is one of the lesser oil producers in the gulf (411,000 bbl. a day), but the population is also small (250,000, of whom only 60,000 are native Qataris). The country has been found to have vast natural gas reserves, though at current prices development is considered...
...back of the eyeball. Electrical impulses then transmit a sharp image to the brain. In the nearsighted, however, the eyeball is usually too long or the cornea too curved, so that the rays come to a focus in front of the retina. In the farsighted, the eyeball is too short or the cornea too flat and the light rays, if they could pass through it, would converge behind the retina...
...were especially high. With Chairman Thomas A. Murphy and President E.M. Estes both nearing their 65th birthdays and required to retire in December and January, the firm's two top jobs would be opening up for the first time in six years. The giant automaker last week cut short the executive-suite guessing game. It announced that Roger Bonham Smith, 55, will replace Murphy as chairman of the board and chief executive officer; Francis James McDonald, 58, will succeed Estes as the company's operating boss. The two men were long regarded as the leading candidates...