Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubtful that the Saigon government, its once efficient security police debilitated by endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions. The 650 youngsters who attend Saigon's American school were transported in Navy buses with steel-mesh window guards, and with armed Navy enlisted men riding shotgun. MPs patrolled the school grounds and roof with Armalite and M-14 rifles held in raised position. Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy...
...fines. What sentence will you impose? The case might have made a script for a TV panel show. But the 30 panelists were not participating for fun. They had recently been appointed federal trial judges and they came to Denver from as far away as the Virgin Islands to attend the first federal Sentencing Institute. As the new judges compared their decisions on the dope peddler and a dozen other selected cases, they were startled by the diversity of their sentences. Often enough, they got a second surprise when they learned the actual sentences that had been handed down...
...they are never quite up to story lines and sociology in song. When the movie version of The King and I arrived in Paris, the theater was all but empty until the exhibitor cut all the music out of the picture; then audiences in sizable quantity began to attend...
...each meeting they attend, directors collect anywhere from $20 (American & Foreign Power) to $300 (Union Carbide). Some companies pay annual retainers, ranging up to General Mills's $10,000. But the responsibilities of sitting on a board usually exceed the rewards. "You couldn't hire many of these men for hundreds of dollars an hour," says American Motors Chairman Richard E. Cross. "They do it because they like business-the power and the thrust and the action...
...Boards probably originated in Germany in the 15th century, when mining companies began selling shares to people in distant cities. Investors found it difficult to attend company meetings, appointed agents to look after their interests...