Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heated swimming pool, a sauna, two clay tennis courts, a one-hole, three-tee golf course, a two-lane bowling alley, a trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean: "It has a rustic feel but no rustic hardship. If Baked Alaska is what you want, Baked Alaska is what...
...plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests of baseball." The prickly Finley vowed to pursue the matter-in court...
LONDON--The United States Army is paying $12,000 to a British social scientist to conduct a survey on whether American soldiers would like to join labor unions...
Gwyn Harries-Jenkins, a lecturer at Hull University in eastern England assigned to conduct the survey, said be felt senior officers would oppose unionization. He said officers think unions undermine discipline and reduce fighting effectiveness...
...against the weather (or lessen its against him), he invented innumerable prayers, supplications, sacrifices, all intended to coax the gods to bestow better weather. Wanting exactly like modern man to know about tomorrow's wind, he developed the practice of looking for omens of coming weather in the conduct of animals, the tones of the sky or the turnings of foliage. He tried rituals, such as dancing, to control the weather. They did not work, of course, but they made for some lively times...