Word: contest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score," said a Columbia senior. Others wake up before dawn in cold sweats or were seized with hallucinations. One member of Harvard's class of 1978 tossed on his bed all night before a math final, imagining himself as King Richard in Ivanhoe, doomed to a perpetual spear-throwing contest in which he always had to outdistance his opponents or suffer, death...
This month Yant's lonely crusade began to bring results. A second grand jury returned a new round of indictments against Weikel. A petition was filed, signed by 6,580 citizens, calling for Weikel's removal. Last week the sheriff pleaded no contest to various misdemeanor charges and resigned from office. The felony charges were dropped. Says...
...guess. You ran the insipid article on the chicken flying contest [July 2] just to see if anyone was reading American Scene. Well I read it, and I find chicken flying in the same category as fox clubbing, dog fighting, cock righting and rattlesnake throwing...
Harris has not won every contest. She tried publicly and unsuccessfully to get Oakley Hunter, Republican holdover chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association, fired when Fannie Mae refused to put as much money into low-income housing as Harris wanted. Says one congressional critic: "Her temper gets her in trouble.She fights so hard she loses patience with people...
...Dynamics, the flyoffs payoff is huge. Each ALCM is estimated to cost only $1 million (vs. $5.8 million for a submarine's Trident I ICBM). However, the Pentagon plans to order 3,000, making the prime contractor's share about $2 billion. By early next year, the contest results are to be announced and the first ALCM-armed B-52 could enter the bomber fleet by December...