Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bankruptcies in the depressed Energy Belt are almost as common as ten-gallon hats, but the Texan who filed papers last week was no ordinary sad case: John Connally, 70, former Treasury Secretary, three-term Texas Governor and onetime presidential candidate. Connally applied under Chapter 11 for personal bankruptcy protection and under Chapter 7 to liquidate the failed real estate business he owned with Partner Ben Barnes, a former Lieutenant Governor. Between them, they owe an estimated $170 million...
...years as President. The accord has angered his party and strained the loyalty of the 45,000-strong armed forces. The opposition parties and Buddhist monks, who are an influential force in Sinhalese society, were in the vanguard of the demonstrations. Said Madihe Pannanseeha, chief priest of the Amarapura Chapter of Buddhists: "India's aim is the total subjugation of Sri Lanka...
...local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, architect of the original Brown case, declined to participate when Smith and the parents of 15 other black Topeka schoolchildren intervened in 1979. The chapter's combative president, Kenneth Hill, charged that the black lawyers who recruited Smith and her fellow plaintiffs "were not fighting for the kids in the schools at all. They were fighting for the leadership of blacks and all the empty honors they can get." The plaintiffs turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for legal assistance. It took seven years for the case...
...demonstrating that a single piece of machinery worth several thousand dollars can successfully penetrate a defense system costing billions of dollars ((WORLD, June 15)), young Mathias Rust of West Germany has opened a new chapter in military history. The tragedy of the U.S.S. Stark and Rust's daring flight prove that our high-tech weapons systems cannot be relied on. Why buy Star Wars when all it takes is a simple Cessna...
...grass-borne boats, he and his wife Debba, 35, and daughter Bronwen, 6, drove down to Charleston from Columbia, where the writer is what he calls a "schoolteacher" at the University of South Carolina. (Dickey has the knack of making modesty seem epic.) His destination was Chapter Two, a bookstore where he was scheduled to sign copies of Alnilam. It was not the impersonal ritual that authors usually endure. Dickey greeted customers and actively solicited their patronage. The result, according to Owner Susan Davis, was that nearly half of the 100 copies she had ordered were sold...