Word: beltings
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With an impressive 13-6 record under its belt, Harvard was one of eight teams invited yesterday to the Eastern Championships, to be held this weekend in Annapolis...
...case in point. In the spring of 1983, top officials of President Reagan's Justice Department, preparing to block the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, agreed to accompany Jesse Jackson on a tour of the Black Belt in Mississippi to investigate schemes to bar or dilute the African American vote...
...company better exemplifies the industry's successes and failures than Tyson, based in Springdale, in the heart of Arkansas' poultry belt. Tyson, whose 1992 sales of $4 billion are nearly twice the size of the Arkansas state budget, produces 20% of America's chickens. Last month, after sharing a dinner of grilled chicken with a TIME reporter, vice chairman John Tyson -- son of the chairman -- boasted that the growth in the company's earnings per share from 1980 to 1990 ranked No. 1 among FORTUNE 500 companies. Total profits have increased fourteenfold in the past decade...
...advocates. "The workers didn't feel they could organize and maintain their jobs, because many plants have an economic stranglehold on their towns," says Kelly Mitchell-Clark, an official of the Women's Project, a nonprofit group in Little Rock that conducted a study of the state's poultry belt. "Sometimes it's a big deal for these people just to be able to get off the processing line to go to the bathroom...
Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...