Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...gymnasts return today to a 20 by 50 foot room in Hemenway Gym to start practicing again, an eye cocked toward a tri-meet of Boston area teams and the Ivy championship competition later this spring...
Here's why: first, defense. Los Angeles's defense against the run was third best in the NFC. And if you start moaning about the difference in conferences, I'll throw in the fact that the Rams allowed fewer yards per game in the air than Pittsburgh...
...expected less from Waldheim's trip than the Secretary-General himself. "I don't have any illusions that I will come back with the hostages," he was reported to have told his aides, "but I hope to start a successful turn, get going in another direction, so that the U.S. and Iran will start negotiating." The 61-year-old diplomat, who once described his office as a mailbox for messages from antagonistic governments, was reluctant to go to Tehran in the first place. "How will the Iranians react?" he asked. "My going there depends on their attitude...
Despite the discouraging word from Iran, Waldheim left for Tehran just hours ahead of the Security Council's approval of a U.S.-sponsored resolution giving him seven days to break the impasse before the start of the debate on.sanctions. In proposing the sanctions resolution, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reminded the council that Iran had ignored three U.N. demands to free the hostages. Said Vance: "The time has come for the world community to act firmly and collectively, to uphold international law and preserve international peace. If the international community fails to act when its law is flouted...
...more sharply than gold during 1979, leaped by $7 per oz., to a peak of $41.50, or a rise of 20%. Then it, too, fell back, with equally extreme gyrations, to some $36.10. Even at that figure, silver was trading for more than gold had been worth at the start of the 1970s...