Word: base
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barrett encouraged CELCO to embrace the "principle of continuity," and continue pressuring the Massachussetts DPU to reconsider the burden it would place on the "small person." The Council voted to encourage the company to examine the Attorney General's testimony before the DPU in favor of "shrinking base rates" to relieve smaller consumers...
...next batter, center fielder Tom Charters, to a 2-and-1 count. Shortell then took advantage of the Bird's involved windup and broke for the plate. The fastball arrived down the middle, but it was good only for a strike as Shortell slid in safe for a stolen base and Penn's fourth...
...most common alternative to Harvard's "chicken with fine herbs," and Ruggles' Pizza is still not turning a profit. But the restaurant survives at a time when many businesses in the Square are closing up shop in the face of rising rents, a narrower, younger customer base and upscale demands...
Boston branch manager Jeffrey M. Cree said, "Business down here has always been good. So good that it's enabled us to open up new stores, including the one in Harvard Square." Cree attibuted the success of the Boston Ruggles to "our pretty strong base of regular customers, business-people or workers downtown. Tourists are seasonal and we have a fair share of those...
...twilight, it was difficult to know who was out there. But the 100 U.S. Marines guarding a military fuel depot near Howard Air Force Base in southern Panama were certain that the uniformed figures moving in the distance were up to no good. Sure enough, as darkness settled, shots rang out. The American sentries responded, firing into the dense jungle that surrounds the 800-acre Arraijan Tank Farm. For two hours, the Marines fired small arms and mortars. Miraculously, no one was hurt; the previous night, a smaller firefight had resulted in the accidental fatal shooting of a Marine. Could...