Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contract fattened with losing changes (It doesn't matter the oldest say 'You still go down in the mines') The slam of the tipple jarring his brain thinking bland-faced of the spring flood from the strip mine The mud water in his sink and cellar...
Though the University rooming contract gives Harvard police the right to search student rooms whenever they please, the police nevertheless obtained a search warrant "for controlled substances" in the three undergraduates' rooms...
...Sidney went out and hired a couple of lawyers. The neighbors soon had to call the cops to prevent trial separation of heads from torsos. Even when his daughter became engaged, Ditchley couldn't escape from the lawyers; she called one in to help her write a marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley...
...case an isolated instance of corruption, or is it part of a routine pattern?" he asked the committee. Johnston answered his question by saying, "We propose that the commission conduct a comprehensive examination of the system; to limit the scope of the investigation to the MBM contract alone would not resolve the doubts and suspicions about the extent of corruption within the entire building system...
Bellotti, who is in the midst of his own investigation into the alleged improprities committed in the MBM-U Mass case did not share the governor's enthusiasm. He questioned the feasibility of investigating every state and country building contract entered into over the last nine years. He added the general nature of the inquiry could "interfere directly with pending criminal prosecutions and civil cases being handled by the executive branch...