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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolutions and ballots appear in the corporation's proxy statement mailed to all the shareholders. Resolutions which the management does not support are almost always defeated by substantial majorities, because many, if not most, shareholders do not bother to vote at all. Abstentions are counted as votes with management...
...pattern: In the Washington Post Index for 1972, three articles appear under the "Food Supply" heading. In 1973, there are 100 "Food Supply" articles. In 1974, 120 articles. In 1975, 36. In 1976, 46. In 1977, 28. In the Los Angeles Times Index, two articles appear under "Food Supply" in 1972. In 1973, there are 62 articles...
...Chicago Tribune follows the same pattern. In its 1972 Index, there are two "Food Supply" articles, 47 appear...
Until a few years ago, Alice's habit of accepting rides from strangers would have been the rapists' strongest defense. Since rape trials often hinge on the victim's word against the defendant's, a standard defense tactic has long been to make the woman appear to have been seeking sex. Courts allowed this, generally following the admonitory dictum on rape laid down in the 17th century by the English jurist Sir Matthew Hale: "An accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never...
...Estella, the lawyer Jaggers, the convict Magwitch, Miss Havisham could be the kind of flamboyant character, drawn with simple, sharp lines, on which operas thrive. Mozart used a similar virago, the Queen of the Night, in The Magic Flute. But Pip, Estella and Jaggers (Magwitch is left out entirely) appear and disappear, little more than shadows crossing Miss Havisham's feverish brain...