Events, Verisoph

1979 Year 1979: Kashani on foreign yoke: Cottam, Richard W., Natio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kashani on foreign yoke: Cottam, Richard W., Nationalism in Iran (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979), p. ●●

1979 Islamic Revolution establishes theocracy in Iran ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Shah's dictatorship produced the Islamic Revolution which brought anti-American theocracy to power that embraced terrorism as statecraft. ●●

1979 Mob attacks the US Embassy in Kabul ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An angry mob broke into the US Embassy compound in Kabul. William Putscher, a US auditor, was present during the violence. ●●

1979 US Marine Stephen Crowley dies in Kabul embassy attack ai_extracted 1 cit. no story US Marine Stephen Crowley died when the oxygen supply ran out while he was being sheltered in the embassy vault. ●●

1979 Gairy flies to New York to discuss cosmic phenomena ai_extracted 2 cit. no story On March 11, 1979, Gairy flew to New York to discuss “cosmic phenomena” with United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim (1979) ●●

1979 Only if one takes the story back to 1979 do British stocks beat British bricks. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only if one takes the story back to 1979 do British stocks beat British bricks. ●●

1979 (It also bought Hitachi computers for the office, something it woul... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Stanley directors had an emotional, protracted debate about whether to reject the IBM offer and miss a fee of approximately $1 million. The meeting was filled with high-flown rhetoric about upholding tradition. Bob Baldwin and Fred Whittemo... ●●

1979 In 1979, Morgan Stanley earned a stratospheric $14.3-million fee fo... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story There was more bad news. About two years before, Morgan Stanley had set up a “risk arbitrage” department to speculate in takeover targets. As would become clear during the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, such operations were incompatible wi... ●●

1979 Starting in 1979, the London-based Morgan Guaranty Ltd rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE TRADERS IN the early 1980s, as the final vestiges of fraternity among the Morgan houses disappeared and Morgan Guaranty abandoned wholesale lending to enter global investment banking, it ran into Morgan Stanley. It was also o... ●●

1979 NYT, January 23, 1979 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 23. Ibid., March 22, 1988. 24. ●●

1979 When Peter Stormonth Darling became rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Peter Stormonth Darling became chairman of Warburg Investment Management in 1979, Siegmund instructed him, “Now, Peter, you are the chairman of... ●●

1979 “Siegmund was the most facile rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Siegmund was the most facile and scintillating conversationalist I’d ever met in my life,” Reich recalled.7 In 1979, Siegmund agreed to a rare,... ●●

1979 In 1979, he went to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1979, he went to see the antique collection of the Munich Glyptothek, which had six glass cabinets filled with Jim Loeb’s exquisite Greek figures.... ●●

1979 In 1979, he sailed to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1979, he sailed to Denmark and Poland on the Warburg schooner, Atalanta, with his fellow Hamburger, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. After one Bonn... ●●

1979 “The Legacy of Displaced Persons—A rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The Legacy of Displaced Persons—A Personal Chronicle.” Presented at a Meeting on the Holocaust, Hunter College, New York, October 22, 1979. Sharp,... ●●

1979 Iran hostage crisis begins ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American hostages were seized in Tehran following the Iranian revolution, held for 444 days and damaging American prestige and the Carter presidency. ●●

1979 China and US establish diplomatic relations ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Normalization of relations between China and US provides baseline for measuring recent relationship deterioration. ●●

1979 Kennan, Decline of Bismarck’s European Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kennan, Decline of Bismarck’s European Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. ●●

1979 Carter authorizes covert aid to Afghan rebels ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul on July 3, 1979. ●●

1979 1979: In May 1979 Fylstra demonstrated an early version of VisiCal... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story conferences into a business of his own and then started a venture capital firm in Manhattan. In May 1979 Fylstra demonstrated an early version of VisiCalc at Rosen’s Personal Computer Forum in his hom ●●

1979 1979: Jobs’s two main visits with his team to Xerox PARC were in D... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story and Engelbart had envisioned. Jobs’s two main visits with his team to Xerox PARC were in December 1979. Jef Raskin, an Apple engineer who was designing a friendly computer that would eventually become ●●

1979 1979: Their exit visas came through in May 1979, when Sergey was f... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story s father applied to emigrate, he and his wife lost their jobs. Their exit visas came through in May 1979, when Sergey was five. With the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, they settled in a wor ●●

1979 1979: then started a venture capital firm in Manhattan. In May 1979 Fylstra rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story then started a venture capital firm in Manhattan. In May 1979 Fylstra demonstrated an early version of VisiCalc at Rosen’s Personal Computer Forum in ●●

1979 1979: hat Bush, Licklider, and Engelbart had envisioned. Jobs’s two main vis rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story hat Bush, Licklider, and Engelbart had envisioned. Jobs’s two main visits with his team to Xerox PARC were in December 1979. Jef Raskin, an Apple engi ●●

1979 1979: lied to emigrate, he and his wife lost their jobs. Their exit visas ca rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story lied to emigrate, he and his wife lost their jobs. Their exit visas came through in May 1979, when Sergey was five. With the help of the Hebrew Immigr ●●

1979 Event of 1979 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story to four wars: in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973. In each, Israeli arms prevailed. Sadat’s national-interest-based switch to, in effect, the anti-Soviet orbit inaugurated a period of intense diplomacy that led to two disengagement agreements between Egypt ●●

1979 Information history in 1979 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story OED. Nonce-word, in fact, was coined by James Murray himself. ●●

1979 ptical of the allegations that had received wide publicity by 1977—rightly, so subsequent inquiry re rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ptical of the allegations that had received wide publicity by 1977—rightly, so subsequent inquiry revealed. The Far Eastern Economic Review based its January 1979 conclusion that the population had actually risen during the Pol Pot period on CIA sour ●●

1979 scholar lauded by Freedom House and the exemplar of the new, nonideological scholarship much admired rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story scholar lauded by Freedom House and the exemplar of the new, nonideological scholarship much admired by the New York Times. Pike described Pol Pot in November 1979 as the “charismatic” leader of a “bloody but successful peasant revolution with a subs ●●

1979 aim, with its reference to “the grim reality” of Cambodia under Khmer Rouge rule. Second, the source rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story aim, with its reference to “the grim reality” of Cambodia under Khmer Rouge rule. Second, the source of the manufactured quote is a work published in November 1979, almost a year after the fall of the Pol Pot regime. To cite the date would have raise ●●

1979 President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski state... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated in 1979 that “I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. ●●

1979 José Napoleón Duarte joined the junta in March to serve as a fig leaf ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story José Napoleón Duarte joined the junta in March to serve as a fig leaf and public-relations agent of the army, but all those who were not satisfied to serve in that role departed.22 Once the old-guard ●●

1979 At the previously mentioned meeting of the Salvadoran officer corps, C... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the previously mentioned meeting of the Salvadoran officer corps, Colonel Adolfo Majano, the last of the reformers in the “reformist” junta of 1979, was denounced, and he quickly exited from the ju ●●

1979 Initial Western news reports pointed out that Agca was a wanted crimin... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Initial Western news reports pointed out that Agca was a wanted criminal who had escaped from a Turkish prison in 1979, and that his durable political affiliations had been with the Fascist right. ●●

1979 First Jonathan Institute conference in Jerusalem ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the first meeting of the Jonathan Institute, in Jerusalem, in July 1979, at which a large Western political and media contingent were present (including Claire Sterling, George Will, George Bush, a ●●

1979 missiles in Western Europe a major Soviet concern—would seem to milita... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story missiles in Western Europe a major Soviet concern—would seem to militate against taking foolish risks.12 A second problem with the SHK model is that Agca had threatened to kill the pope in 1979 at th ●●

1979 None of them stopped to evaluate Agca’s 1979 letter threatening to kil... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story None of them stopped to evaluate Agca’s 1979 letter threatening to kill the pope on his earlier visit to Turkey. ●●

1979 , Towards Socialism in Tanzania (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979), pp. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , Towards Socialism in Tanzania (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979), pp. ●●

1979 African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999. rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999. ●●

1979 Ravenholt’s field representative judged that the “institu- tionalization of [family planning] at ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ravenholt’s field representative judged that the “institu- tionalization of [family planning] at the sub-village level is awesome— perhaps the most socially directed family planning program outside... ●●

1979 Even as other countries began to assume a larger role in financing service programs, the proporti... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even as other countries began to assume a larger role in financing service programs, the proportion of research funding from public and private sources in the United States actually increased: by 1... ●●

1979 Taylor to Bell, March 8, 1979, FFA, Papers of David Bell, series 5, box 34, folder 800 (emphasis ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Taylor to Bell, March 8, 1979, FFA, Papers of David Bell, series 5, box 34, folder 800 (emphasis in original); “Minutes of the Fourth Meeting,” April 26, 1979, IPPFA, 1.4.1.1.3, “Executive Committe... ●●

1979 Grenada 1979-1984 Interviewed later by the BBC, Scoon rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Grenada 1979-1984 Interviewed later by the BBC, Scoon himself said that an invasion was the “last thing” he wanted ●●

1979 2 The United States began supporting Afghan Islamic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2 The United States began supporting Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in 1979 despite the fact that in February of that ye ●●

1979 In May 1979, British political scientist Fred Halliday rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In May 1979, British political scientist Fred Halliday observed that “probably more has changed in the countryside over ●●

1979 In September 1979, the month that Amin took rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1979, the month that Amin took power, the American chargé d'affaires in Kabul, Bruce Amstutz, began to hold ●●

1979 66, cited in Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 66, cited in Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (Boston, 1979) p ●●

1979 d) a Chomsky and Edward Herman, The Washington rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story d) a Chomsky and Edward Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (Boston, 1979) see index ●●

1979 3; though written after the Soviet invasion, the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 3; though written after the Soviet invasion, the article refers to April 1979 ●●

1979 Legislative action rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1979, Federal Reserve policy had pushed up interest rates, and the S&Ls had to keep pace to attract deposits ●●

1979 Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Deals began to go sour, and 1979 was the first year since the Great Depression of the 1930s that the total net worth of federally insured S&Ls became ●●

1979 VisiCalc demonstrated at the Personal Computer Forum ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Dan Fylstra showed an early version of VisiCalc at Ben Rosen's Personal Computer Forum in New Orleans. ●●

1979 Sergey Brin's family leaves the Soviet Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sergey Brin's family received exit visas and left the Soviet Union when he was five. ●●

1980 US strikes down federal usury laws ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 struck down all federal usury laws in the United States, letting lenders follow the laws of the state where they registered. ●●

1980 Desert One hostage rescue fails ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A Pentagon special-operations mission to rescue the American hostages in Iran ended in catastrophe. Eight commandos died when a helicopter crashed into a transport plane in the desert. ●●

1980 Carter's first Central America covert actions ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Carter approved three small covert-action programs in Central America aimed at the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. They supported pro-American parties, churches, and unions against the spread of socialism. ●●

1980 Year 1980: Joint communiqué: Alexander, Yonah, and Nanes, All rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Joint communiqué: Alexander, Yonah, and Nanes, Allen (eds.), The United States and Iran: A Documentary History (Frederick, Md.: Alethia Books, 1980), p. ●●

1980 In 1980 Grombach cited wartime rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1980 Grombach cited wartime Abwehr records as proof that “the Panama Canal giveaway … is the direct result of its definite selection by the USSR and Stalin as the first priority domino along with Cuba in the Communist play for world domination as far back as … 1942. ●●

1980 One million Afghan refugees flee to Pakistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Within one year of the Soviet invasion, approximately one million Afghan refugees poured into Pakistan, creating a humanitarian crisis. ●●

1980 Pinochet concedes a new Chilean constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1980, just seven years after the coup, Pinochet conceded a new constitution that prescribed a ten-year transition back to democracy. ●●

1980 As profit-hungry as their language was profane, the self-styled ‘Big Swinging Dicks’ at Salomon saw rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As profit-hungry as their language was profane, the self-styled ‘Big Swinging Dicks’ at Salomon saw a way of exploiting the gyrating interest rates of the early 1980s. ●●

1980 In 1980, perhaps taking a swipe at IBM, Morgan Stanley introduced r... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Stanley directors had an emotional, protracted debate about whether to reject the IBM offer and miss a fee of approximately $1 million. The meeting was filled with high-flown rhetoric about upholding tradition. Bob Baldwin and Fred Whittemo... ●●

1980 In 1980, it vainly badgered the country to go to the IMF rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As a latecomer to Latin America, Morgan’s position as chief adviser to Brazil was a startling achievement. It was accomplished through the virtuosity of an engaging young banker of mixed nationality named Antonio Gebauer. Born in Colombia to a wea... ●●

1980 In the past, British authorities had taken a relaxed attitude towar... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As in any share-rigging scheme, there was a critical weakness: what would happen to artificially elevated share prices when the secret props were removed? Apparently Roger Seelig feared that friendly parties might suddenly dump up to 20 percent of... ●●

1980 It also wasn’t far from rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It also wasn’t far from Swabia and perhaps stirred some old memories; as late as 1980, Siegmund attended a reunion of his Gymnasium. He had more... ●●

1980 For years he nursed this rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For years he nursed this wound in silence and only told Spira at a 1980 lunch how hurt he had been.12 Spira’s error precipitated a fall from grace.... ●●

1980 With his usual thoroughness, leaving rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With his usual thoroughness, leaving nothing to chance, Siegmund had written up instructions in 1980 for how to handle his death. He didn’t want a... ●●

1980 In 1980, at Eric’s urging, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1980, at Eric’s urging, she took her son, Oliviero, to the town of Warburg and other spots in Germany. Only among old friends and Resistance... ●●

1980 1. Institutional Investor, March 1980 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1. Institutional Investor, March 1980. ●●

1980 8. Institutional Investor, March 1980 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 8. Institutional Investor, March 1980. ●●

1980 China tests long-range ICBMs ai_extracted 1 cit. no story China successfully tested intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of 7,000 nautical miles, capable of reaching all Soviet territory and parts of the United States. ●●

1980 Chinese naval task force sails the South Pacific ai_extracted 1 cit. no story China deployed an eighteen-vessel naval task force on an 8,000-nautical-mile mission in the South Pacific, conducting major military exercises with ICBM tests. ●●

1980 and 2016, the ratio of CEO pay to that of the average worker in the United rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1980 and 2016, the ratio of CEO pay to that of the average worker in the United States grew ninefold, from 42 to 1 to 361 to 1 (thirty-three major U ●●

1980 to 2016, the share of national income going to the top 1 percent jumped fro rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1980 to 2016, the share of national income going to the top 1 percent jumped from 34 percent to 47 percent ●●

1980 Czeslaw Milosz wins Nobel Prize in Literature ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Polish-American poet and author Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his acceptance speech in Stockholm, he remarked that the modern age is characterized by a refusal to remember. ●●

1980 in the midst of his killing rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in the midst of his killing spree. ●●

1980 After a relatively brief interval, Americans recovered their bearing in the 1980s rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After a relatively brief interval, Americans recovered their bearing in the 1980s. ●●

1980 At one moment, at the beginning of the 1980s, it was as if communist momentum might sweep all before rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At one moment, at the beginning of the 1980s, it was as if communist momentum might sweep all before it; at the next, as history measures time, communism was self-destructing. ●●

1980 By the mid-1980s, Soviet policymakers faced an agenda on which any one item would have been difficul rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the mid-1980s, Soviet policymakers faced an agenda on which any one item would have been difficult enough to overcome but which, in combination, proved insuperable. ●●

1980 He had come into office confronted by a restive Poland in which, since 1980, Solidarity had become a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He had come into office confronted by a restive Poland in which, since 1980, Solidarity had become an ever more potent factor. ●●

1980 Ten years earlier, that might have worked; by the late 1980s, Gorbachev could not catch up with the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ten years earlier, that might have worked; by the late 1980s, Gorbachev could not catch up with the power curve. ●●

1980 At a growth rate of 8 percent, which is less than it has maintained over the 1980s, China’s Gross Na rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At a growth rate of 8 percent, which is less than it has maintained over the 1980s, China’s Gross National Product will approach that of the United States by the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century. ●●

1980 Evergreen airline flies the Shah of Iran ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA-linked airline Evergreen flew the Shah of Iran around in 1980, part of its mysterious government operations. ●●

1980 1980: But when that option was debated at a July 1980 meeting, IBM... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e Atari 800 home computer and slapping IBM’s name on it. But when that option was debated at a July 1980 meeting, IBM’s CEO Frank Carey dismissed it. Surely the world’s greatest computer company could ●●

1980 1980: So on July 21, 1980, he placed a call to Bill Gates and aske... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story have to license software from outside vendors rather than have it written in-house. So on July 21, 1980, he placed a call to Bill Gates and asked to see him right away. When Gates invited him to fly t ●●

1980 1980: 20 In early 1980 he applied for a job at the J. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story hich technology would connect people to each other and all of the world’s information. 20 In early 1980 he applied for a job at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. “I firmly believe that techno ●●

1980 1980: ns, language is just a game divorced from meaning. This objection led rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ns, language is just a game divorced from meaning. This objection led to the most enduring challenge to the Turing Test, which was in a 1980 essay by ●●

1980 1980: i 800 home computer and slapping IBM’s name on it. But when that optio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story i 800 home computer and slapping IBM’s name on it. But when that option was debated at a July 1980 meeting, IBM’s CEO Frank Carey dismissed it. Surely ●●

1980 1980: side vendors rather than have it written in-house. So on July 21, 1980 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story side vendors rather than have it written in-house. So on July 21, 1980, he placed a call to Bill Gates and asked to see him right away. When Gates inv ●●

1980 1980: to each other and all of the world’s information. 20 In early 1980 he rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story to each other and all of the world’s information. 20 In early 1980 he applied for a job at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. “I firmly bel ●●

1980 Information history in 1980 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story bing the routes, intersections, and histories of every numbered highway and road in the United States. (“Route 273 [New York State, decommissioned in 1980] began at an intersection with U. ●●

1980 Jule Charney, “Conversations with George Platzman,” recorded rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jule Charney, “Conversations with George Platzman,” recorded August 1980, in R ●●

1980 El Salvador opposition leaders murdered in San Salvador ai_extracted 1 cit. no story n heavy risks of being murdered—the five leaders of the political opposition in El Salvador were tortured, murdered, and mutilated in San Salvador in November 1980. 3. As we pointed out in chapter I, the government and other power groups try to mono ●●

1980 client-state El Salvador in 1980; he was given more coverage than the ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story client-state El Salvador in 1980; he was given more coverage than the aggregate of one hundred religious victims killed in U.S. ●●

1980 The American Legal Foundation, organized in 1980, has specialized in F... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American Legal Foundation, organized in 1980, has specialized in Fairness Doctrine complaints and libel suits to aid “media victims.” The Capital Legal Foundation, incorporated in 1977, was the Sc ●●

1980 client states:1 Row 2 shows the coverage given seventy-two individuals... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story client states:1 Row 2 shows the coverage given seventy-two individuals in a list of Latin American religious “martyrs” named by Penny Lernoux in her book Cry of the People; row 3 describes media cover ●●

1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated in El Salvador ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Row 4 summarizes the coverage of the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, of El Salvador, shot by an assassin in March 1980. ●●

1980 John Bushnell, of the State Department, stated before a House appropri... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Bushnell, of the State Department, stated before a House appropriations committee that “there is some misperception by those who follow the press that the government is itself repressive in El Sa ●●

1980 By the end of May, church sources reported 1,844 civilian deaths alrea... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the end of May, church sources reported 1,844 civilian deaths already in 1980, a figure that reached 10,000 by the end of the year, almost all at the hands of the government. ●●

1980 is straightforward lying: Romero never accused the left of torture or ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 31, 1980) is straightforward lying: Romero never accused the left of torture or widespread killing, he never equated the right and the left, and he was quite clear that the government (an agent of the ●●