Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hudson. Anyone hitting a gate suffers penalty points; anyone missing one then and there loses just about any chance of winning. The longest slalom race is 1.5 miles. The "downriver" runs for 7½ miles, and is purely a speed and endurance event. The only contestants to get a break are the matures; they can have as much as 10% subtracted from their times...
...some cases the preposterous plots are exceeded by the presumptuous flackery. Templeton's publishers announce that during his promotional tour he will "break the last taboo on national TV." Rader's novel was unveiled at a Manhattan disco with a gospel sing-along starring Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William F. Buckley and Walter Cronkite. Stein & Day let it be known that The Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book...
...there any way to break out of the cycle of rate increases, leading to fewer mailings and then to more rate increases? The House last month passed, by 384 to 11, a bill that would repeal the $920 million ceiling on Government contributions to the service out of tax revenues; it would authorize Congress to appropriate any amount that the Postmaster General could demonstrate was needed for public-service functions. Supporters of the bill argue persuasively that the Postal Service cannot operate strictly as a business but that it must provide services that have no hope of paying their...
...record will not stand unchallenged for long; Boeing could break it later this year if it receives orders from American or United Airlines for its new generations of 767 and 777 jets, which are now on the drawing boards. What seemed surprising was that a deal of last week's size came from a state-controlled carrier whose home country is smaller than New York City, with a population (2.3 million) smaller than Colorado's. Yet Singapore Airlines is based astride key crossroads of Asian air travel, and last year it carried 2.5 million passengers on highly profitable...
Brutus stressed the need for corporate withdrawal because, he said, the companies cannot take meaningful action for social change without contravening South African law. "The last thing Nelson Mandella [long-time leader of the older South African liberation party] said to me--we used to break stones together in prison--was 'get the message out; get the corporations off our backs...