Word: ax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guinier had previously notified Nwafor that his appointment would not be renewed next year and said Nwafor "has his own ax to grind...
...largely confines herself to concert appearances and to teaching at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard and the New England Conservatory. But for the American première of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave, in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the soprano sang the role of the old battle-ax aunt to Alan Titus' young Owen. Letting out all the stops, Steber, done up in Victorian rig, calls her nephew a coward for not following in the family's military tradition. How did it feel to play the heavy for a change? "A character part like this...
...budget proposals are approved, the ax will fall on a wide range of medical institutions and programs. Two years ago, for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which supports a variety of projects in the field of genetics, had a budget of $28.3 million for new research grants; next year it will get $5,000,000. General research support grants, administered by the National Institutes of Health's Division of Research Resources, have been cut from $55.2 million to $17 million. Research fellowships and training grants, essential to the training of medical researchers and instructors, are being...
...Federal Register on July 1 (the start of fiscal 1974), a mandatory step before implementing an Executive order. Yet the Manpower Administration has received no further instructions, there is no time left to meet the publishing deadline and the staff sits around waiting for the fall of the ax that no one seems to have remembered to swing...
...case had their suspicions justified. While being questioned by police in a new round of interrogation about the murder, Jean-Pierre suddenly confessed to the murder. When the police refused to accept the confession, he took them to his brother's apartment, where they found a bloody ax and the girl's glasses. The case should have ended there. It has not. Judge Pascal and most of the townspeople are still convinced of Leroy's guilt. Although out of prison, the hapless notary is still formally charged with murder. The charge will stick until the case...