Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having seen Bob Dylan's movie Renaldo and Clara yet, I have no quarrel with the review [Feb. 20]. However, I do disagree with the statements in the last paragraph. Dylan may indeed be trying "to hold on to the Woodstock ethos of the counterculture," but what is wrong with that? In my opinion, the Woodstock era was the finest hour in America history. Sure, times change, but not everyone has cut their hair and forgotten their dreams...
...which have long been completely free. The operators insist that the workers pay up to $700 a year in deductibles and agree to some other cost-cutting shifts, such as limits on payments to widows. "I don't expect to live long enough to retire," says Illinois Miner Bob Colyer. "So I want my family taken care of. If I die and my wife makes more than $200 a month, she'll lose all medical benefits after 30 days. Now that's just not right...
...over each other in a race to carry the corporate banner of the oil and gas companies, and to win the resultant prize--an enormous campaign treasure chest. The 1978 Texas Senate race is a classic example of this phenomenon. In all likelihood the contest will be between Congressman Bob Kreuger who led the deregulation fight in the House of Representatives and nearly won, and incumbent Republican Senator John Tower, one of the industry's oldest and most faithful friends...
...INDULGE in a little hyperbole, the voracious corporate wolves have gotten to the Senate on this issue. Congressman Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.), having just emerged from a meeting in which House members had discussed their reactions to and interpretations of the Senate "compromise," estimates that their bill would unjustifiably cost the consumer an additional $3.5 billion. Eckhardt attributed this "bonanza" for the gas industry to "more generous treatment in connection with drilling in closer proximity to existing wells," and to the fact that the Senate would allow new reservoirs found on old OCS leases to qualify for higher prices...
Hynes, meanwhile, had the third best goals against average in the Ivies (behind first-teamer Mike Laycock of Brown and second teamer Fred Cherne of Princeton), but was overlooked for honorable mention by the coaches in favor of Penn's Bob Sutton and Cornell's Steve Napier...