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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raymond said the hopeful Olympians are probably working out at Newell because the Olympic Rowing Committee (ORC) will probably ask Harvard heavyweight coach Harry Parker to coach the U.S. men's eight next July in the 1980 Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boathouse Attracts Olympic Hopefuls | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...learn (1) "God doesn't make promises he don't keep," (2) "You've either got faith or unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground," and (3) "Jesus said be ready, for you know not the hour which I come." Dylan even stoops to a Barry Manilowesque "Babe, ask me how I feel and if my love is real" construction...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Gospel According to Bob | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...today's preliminary election, the most the Boston voters can hope for is a change in the political scenery. We can only ask that in the final election, the candidates concentrate more on the issues, and less on personalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Mayor For Boston | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to assure the payment of vested pensions. The aim was to prevent situations like the one that arose in 1964 when Studebaker stopped production and workers were left with little or no benefits. Now the pension protector is itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date was $35 million. In the unlikely event that Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Danger: Pension Perils Ahead | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...plenty of tournament play and an A average as well. "I just want my time at home to be normal," she says. Tracy has earned well in excess of $300,000 in the past year, so her $1-a-week allowance has been suspended. But she still must ask her mother for clothes money. Her older sister and two older brothers were serious tennis competitors; a third, John, 22, plays on the men's tour. "I'm the baby and it's helped my parents Tracy says. "If they made any mistakes with the others, they didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: She's Not a Kid Any More | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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