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Word: chases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyed, free-spending "McGovern-type liberal," who is "too radical to be our Governor." Dai-ton's campaign literature asserts that, as Governor, "Howling Henry" would howl to a tune composed by George Meany. Dalton also has warned that cops and firemen would be "too busy collective bargaining" to chase criminals and put out fires. At one rally, Dalton waved a garden hose at the crowd to dramatize the supposed dangers of a firemen's strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Tight Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...believes this mayhem is unnecessary is Richard Turner, a former stock car racing driver who is now a police official in Hutchins, Texas. He runs a driving school specializing in the act of the "slow chase." His three-day course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Think Slow | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Quakers have not been a factor in the Ivy League title chase in recent seasons, so being only one game out of first place this late in the season has left them on an emotional high...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Primed for Quaker Arrival | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

...Swiss franc, for example, in the past eight weeks -hardly inspires confidence either. Unease about many of these matters predates Carter's Inauguration, but there is no question that doubts about the President's economic policy have increased the reluctance to invest. Says Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Frankly, many companies just don't know whether to go forward with capital expansion plans because they have got no clear signals from Washington." A senior official of California's Bank America Corp. adds, "They are waiting to see what happens to the energy program, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Redding participated along with Harvard and Cambridge police in a three-block-long chase which eventually led to the youth's house, where he was apprehended...

Author: By Rose C. Palermo, | Title: Mather Crash | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

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