Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oklahoma land rush. The surge in sales is causing a boom in construction, attracting speculators, and hiking prices to levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace & Co.: "I've never seen anything like it. You have to call it hysteria...
MacDougall was recruited by a fellow Harvardman, Washington Campaign Consultant John Deardourff. With his partner Douglas Bailey, Deardourff is co-chairman of Campaign '76, the advertising arm of the President Ford Committee. The three men, closeted in a Kansas City hotel during the Republican Convention, drafted a thick tome they called simply The Plan. Its broad strategic aim: to focus attention on Ford's openness and his healing effect on the country, rather than on details of his positions on the issues...
Kubacki's 209-yard first half effort sent visions of national leadership dancing through the heads of Crimson fans. Things calmed down in the last 20 minutes, however, and he took his bionic arm to the sidelines with a final total of 279 (237 passing, 42 rushing...
...smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting high school platitudes. I may not go to the polls in November. I just can't get up for this." Douglas Fraser, director of the United Auto Workers' political arm, predictably thought Carter came off all right, but no better: "He didn't have to win. He just had to be credible and I think he showed that...
...1920s, Douglas did pioneering research into the functions of labor and production in the economy. During the Depression, he advised F.D.R. on unemployment policies and later helped set up the Social Security system. After serving in the Marines during World War II (he lost the use of his left arm when hit by enemy fire on Okinawa), Douglas traveled to Washington in 1949 as the junior Senator from Illinois. Many of the causes he campaigned for-civil rights, truth in lending, tax reform, Medicaid, campaign finance reform-have since become law. His steadfast support of the Viet Nam War contributed...