Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board denied any wrongdoing. It insisted that a steady effort had been made since 1954 to change the school-district boundaries and close rundown, largely black schools. Moreover, the board maintained, Johnson was receiving a quality education. But after years of wrangling, the board's guarantors, Insurance Co. of North America, last December offered a settlement to Johnson. Explains I.N.A. Attorney Eugene Ralston: "The basic reason for settling was the enormous expense involved in the litigation. An in ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid...
...another poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) indicated that the Tory margin had shrunk to a bare 3%; a 6% lead might translate into a majority of 30 seats or more, but the MORI sampling of voters suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan had a 19% lead over his Tory rival in popularity and that up to one-fifth of the electorate was undecided. Among those uncertain voters were millions of working-class housewives, who were Thatcher's prime target on her electoral...
...Patriotic Front. Says a white restaurant owner in Salisbury, expressing a hope shared by many of Rhodesia's 212,000 remaining "Europeans" "The bishop is a weak man who is going to be strong. He will ring up the Presidents [of Zambia and Mozambique] and tell them to close the terrorist camps. He will say, 'Smith is gone, I'm Prime Minister now. We will give you a month-it's either the hand of friendship...
...with the swami admitted popping a poisoned chocolate into a victim's mouth (disliking the flavor, the victim spat it out). In stage three, an arsenal was allegedly assembled, and bombs were planted next to two houses. No one was killed, but the blast compelled the police to close...
...strides beautifully. He's like a dancer." Conn McCreary, two-time Derby winner as a jockey and now a Florida trainer, watched Spectacular Bid train for Churchill Downs this spring. McCreary sums up: "He's the class this year. I just can't see anything getting close...