Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Listen to the call of the wild: the whistle of hawks and the whir of helicopters. The growl of grizzlies and the groans of chain saws. Gaze upon the glories of nature: fleet-footed antelope and wide-wheeled ATV's. Towering mountains and low-slung condominiums. Packs of wolves and parades of Winnebagos...
...speaking last month at a graduation ceremony at California State University, Los Angeles. During his speech, on the value of higher education, he asked the graduating students how many had parents who had never graduated from high school. When some 30% stood up, he congratulated them for "breaking the chain" and said he hopes to return next year to his alma mater to finish his own education. Olmos, who dropped out shortly before graduating, added that he is planning to re-enroll at Cal State with the intention of getting his B.A. and possibly going on for higher degrees...
...duty, when can you stop and frisk somebody?" asks Instructor Frank Connolly, a veteran police inspector, who retired in 1974. Answer: "Only inside your geographical area of employment." Later Connolly zeroes in on the distinction between larceny and robbery. A "perp" snatches a chain from a woman's neck, he hypothesizes. "Is it larceny or robbery?" Answer: "If he grabs the chain and breaks it without using force against her, you don't charge him with robbery unless you want to lose. Absent force, it's larceny...
...Ninfa Maria Rodriguez Laurenzo, a widow, was looking for a way to support her three youngest children when she opened a tiny Mexican restaurant in Houston in 1973. In that business, she says, "I knew there would at least be food for my family." Last year Ninfa's, her chain of ten Texas restaurants, grossed $20 million...
Congress overhauled the retirement program in 1983, after dire predictions that the Golden Age for the post-World War II generation would bring on the Dark Ages for Social Security. Before the reforms, the trust fund had worked more like a chain letter than a pension plan. Each current retiree's benefit check required payroll taxes from four current employees. But so many children were born right after the war and so few after 1964 that the pay-as-you-go system threatened to collapse when the boomers retired. In the first half of the next century there will...