Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, no one day is likely to match the fabulous Fourth. On the eve of the holiday, President Ford urged Americans to "break out the flag, strike up the band, light up the sky." They did all that, with gusto (see color pages). On the big day itself, Ford set the tone at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where representatives of the 13 colonies signed the Declaration in 1776. Said he: "Liberty is a living flame to be fed, not dead ashes to be revered...
...Harvard policeman was assaulted last Thursday night allegedly by three male youths he had tried to question about a recent break-in, a police spokesman said yesterday...
...caution: people may be laughing so hard all around you that, to hear the word, close attention will have to be paid. Silent Movie is brassy, incautious, funny without mercy. For laughter, Brooks gives no quarter, and he disdains the small change. As ever, he is out to break the bank. He comes as close as anyone in the vicinity to succeeding. Maybe even a little closer...
Since they cannot crack Broadway, Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
Bribery at Home? When the wave of slush-fund and payoff scandals began to break, he also developed the idea of consent agreements. His bright young staff-average age is under 30-would collect evidence of wrongdoing and confront the companies with it. Then the corporations would continue the probe under SEC supervision, using untainted directors, lawyers and accountants to do the work. In the Gulf Oil case, the guilty company spent $3.5 million on its investigation...