Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Korea, Marcos has shown no sign that he is willing to ease up. Last week, in a major policy speech for his 62nd birthday, Marcos defiantly declared that he had no intention of lifting the martial law imposed in 1972. This decision, though not unexpected, came as a blow to both opposition leaders and Western diplomats, who have been privately urging the President to restore democratic rule before it is too late. It also did not augur well for observances of the seventh anniversary of martial law in many areas of the Philippines this week...
...most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started...
...whose specialty is suing insurance companies for dealing in "bad faith" with their customers. In 1974 Shernoff not only persuaded a jury to award Egan $123,600 in damages for lost benefits and emotional distress, but he also won a whopping $5 million in punitive damages. That was a blow to Mutual's image as well as to its pocketbook: under California law, punitive damages are awarded to punish and deter "oppression, fraud or malice...
...ranking Southerner on the Ways and Means Committee so he would "have more time to spend with his family"; and Tommy Boggs, son of the former House Majority Leader, Hale Boggs, and lobbying quarterback for a team of more than 50 lawyers in the firm of Patten, Boggs and Blow. In addition, Chrysler's own executives are reputed to have met with over 100 legislators themselves...
ERNIE CHRISTIAN, former deputy secretary of the Treasury for tax policy during Connally's tenure, now the top tax technician at Patten, Biggs and Blow, seemed to understand that the tax plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to shell out the bucks. And he seemed a little confused that the politicians hadn't liked the tax credit plan better. After all, doing business through the tax code, which he called the guts of the economy, with fancy formulas and convoluted reasoning, is the best way to throw...