Word: tide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Light winds prevailed on Saturday, allowing completion of only one of the three planned races. The Crimson saw a seemingly secure second place evaporate in the thin air to a dismal seventh. Yale's Pat Seaver dropped anchor to sip beer until the changing tide carried the bull-dogs across the finish line in first place...
...Arthur Norman, chairman of the De La Rue Co. of London, commented somberly: "Over the past few years, the U.S. free-trade lobby has been very successful, generally speaking, in holding back the protectionist tide. That tide has now overtaken us temporarily-and we have to ask how long 'temporarily' will be." Belgium's Count Boël suggested: "I think the U.S. will remain faithful to a doctrine not of free trade, but of fair trade, to gain equality. We and the Americans recognize that the world has changed, that a new approach...
...answer to these questions lies in a complex sequence of action and reaction. Jackson played a major role in this sequence, but the chain began long before he was born and, as is evidenced by Attica and the tide of prison disturbances that have followed, the chain was not broken by Jackson's death on an August afternoon in San Quentin...
...thing you never have to worry about is confidence in a passer from Alabama." The Packers are certainly one team that should have confidence in an Alabama quarterback, even an unheralded one. They got along quite well for years with a 17th-round draft choice from the Crimson Tide named Bart Starr...
...deposits and relative political stability has long lured investment money and technology to Venezuela. Largely on the strength of this inflow of cash and know-how from the U.S. and elsewhere, the country's living standard has risen to the highest level in South America. Lately, however, a tide of economic nationalism aimed at minimizing outside control of domestic resources has been on the flow in Latin America. Oil investment has been a frequent casualty. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Bolivia have put their oil-producing industries under state ownership. In Peru, the largest oil company has been expropriated...