Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About that wine. The state legislature, at an estimated cost of about $10,000 in time spent, passed a special act to pay the $10.36 tax. One official who finally drank some of the wine pronounced it "just excellent...
...million dollars in industrial losses, the Shah named Jamshid Amuzegar, 54, the country's tough oil and energy negotiator, as Premier. Amuzegar took swift action against inflation (down from 31% last August to 15% today). He also curbed public spending and real estate speculation, decentralized government offices and acted to bring down the cost of housing. Claiming that subversive elements were using religious organizations as a cover, Amuzegar said last week that the government intended to "act strongly" against those who misuse freedom. At the same time, Amuzegar said, his government was engaged in an effort to win over...
...Georgie Hinman, a legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them to sit there neutrally." He succeeds. The class bubbles on about a Flannery O'Connor story, oblivious to a bright spring morning outside and even...
...admits the possibility of ordination for people with a homosexual orientation, so long as they are "repentant" and committed to celibacy. It directs presbyteries not to quiz ministerial candidates about homosexuality unless they themselves have raised the issue. An "anti-witch-hunt clause" leaves unclear whether the church would act against open homosexuality among those already in the ministry...
...This place is like a parental tourist attraction. It's packed with sightseeing parents and their oversized cars. And they're all trying so hard to act impressed with Harvard," Martin A. Sullivan '80 said yesterday...