Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story traces Maddox's rise to Governor from small-time proprietor of the Pickrick fried chicken chain ("Happy white folks at my tables, happy nigras in my kitchen"), his successful bid for the presidency in 1973, and his war against Russia, in which he personally exterminates everybody but himself-even his pal, God, whose place he is only too happy to fill...
...East fields. As a result, B.P. has been forced to rely on sales of crude oil and pass up the more lucrative marketing of refined products. The U.S. stations, which will take on B.P.'s green and yellow colors, should help considerably. They outnumber B.P.'s own chain in Britain (4,900 stations), will bring B.P.'s worldwide total to 36,000 stations. To pay for them, B.P. has worked out a scheme that is fancier than Sinclair's Dino Dollars game. Because of the weakness of the pound, Her Majesty's government would never...
Unlike previous conquerors, the U.S. has always declared its intention to hand Okinawa and the rest of the 73 islands it administers in the Ryukyu chain back to Japan. The question is, when? During 23 years of occupation, the U.S. has turned Okinawa into an American Gibraltar in the Pacific, a strategic forward base for nuclear-armed B-52 bombers and a logistics launching pad for the Viet Nam war. At the same time, the continued occupation has become the touchiest issue in Japanese politics-and virtually the only political cause that stirs the 952,000 Okinawans...
...during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1968. About 40% of its sales are still generated by the labelers, which are sold in 105 countries. Almost all the rest comes from three wholly owned subsidiaries: Elliott Business Machines (20%); Trans-Western Service Industries, a laundry and dry-cleaning chain with 450 outlets in California and the Midwest (15%); and Modulux, which makes relocatable buildings mainly for schools and the military...
...individual, worthy of nearly every label the unbelieving Pentheus attaches to him, brings this side of Euripedes out into the open. The modern costumes, particularly the policemen's garbs in which Pentheus's men are clothed, suggest the further metaphor of entrapment: Dionysus himself seems to have unleashed the chain of events leading to Pentheus' death...