Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, Chiang Ch'ing, served as host. When the troupe finished a song promising the liberation of Taiwan, Chiang Ch'ing jumped to her feet and ' applauded wildly. Nixon half rose and applauded perfunctorily in turn. When he was told later that a news account described him as having stood and applauded the song, Nixon angrily replied through an aide: "Like hell I did! It was just a gentleman-to-a-lady gesture. I stood up for a lady who was standing, not for the song." Nonetheless, though Nixon presumably did not want to endorse Peking...
Virginia Pasley, a former newspaper correspondent and author of 21 Stayed, a book about brainwashed American prisoners in Korea, believes that Patty Hearst's experiences as a captive-if her account is true-coincide with those of the P.O.W.s. They were humiliated, stripped naked, confined in narrow spaces, forced to write life histories that often revealed disastrous childhoods. Most of the P.O.W.s who broke down were very young, Pasley says, and poorly educated-a characteristic, she believes, that Patty shares with them despite her finishing-school background. One P.O.W., Pasley recalls, was convinced by his captors that...
Such containers amount to a $ 1.4 billion annual business in the U.S., and the accused firms account for about 70% of the industry's total volume. Included in the indictment are the nation's three largest folding-box producers: Container Corp. of America, Federal Paper Board Co. and American Can Co. Also mentioned in the indictment are unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators -undoubtedly companies that cooperated with the Justice Department's investigation. That suggests a Government belief that price fixing extended not just to 70% of box sales, but also to almost the industry's total volume...
...nation's coal lies west of the Mississippi, the industry still concentrates heavily on working the old veins of Appalachia and the Midwest. They are still rich enough to support what has become an industry of corporate giants. Some 1,200 companies work small mines, but they account for only 40% of output. The other 60% comes from 15 companies, led by Peabody Coal of St. Louis and Consolidation Coal of Pittsburgh. Only three of the 15-Pittston (No. 5), North American (No. 10) and Westmoreland (No. 13)-are independent; the rest are subsidiaries of bigger companies...
...bottom line of both columns in question referred not to the fact that the fans [and the band] are directly responsible for wins or losses, but rather that they have a potential effect on a team's performance. Mr. Powell fails to take into account the universally accepted importance of the "home court [ice] advantage" and the part it can play in winning and losing. What does he suppose this advantage consists...