Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCurdy held what he termed "a minor victory celebration," last night. He said, however, that he was disappointed because Rojas did not have a crack at the top thinclad field...
...American forces are spearheaded by the crack Eugene V. Debs and Salvador Allende divisions, fresh from their lightning victory over the Greek dictatorship. One soldier, Buzz Palmer of Gary, Indiana, said today, "Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg would be ashamed if they saw what socialism has come to mean in eastern Europe. We will join with our brothers and sisters and fight for their dream...
...Kennedy Democrat who filled his top four investigative posts with fellow Kennedy Democrats could not have been pleasing to the administration. Nixon decided over the weekend that a bi-partisan House inquiry and a friendlier judicial arrangement would be preferable to Archibald Cox and his staff of 80 crack lawyers examining all the president's activities and papers. If Congress tries to appoint a new special prosecutor, the president and the Republicans will be in a position to secure guarantees that the new attorneys are not "out to get the President...
Closing the Window. Meanwhile, some S and Ls, strapped for funds, have stopped making new mortgage loans altogether. They include Sun Federal in Portland, Maine's largest, and First Federal in Chicago, the biggest in Illinois. Others are keeping their mortgage windows open a mere crack by granting loans only to long-time depositors, and in some cases actually demanding that a home buyer maintain a savings-account balance equal to the size of the mortgage loan he seeks. The market is tightest in states like New York and Illinois, where usury laws keep mortgage-interest rates below...
Refreshing Tendency. Tupperware is not the only ingredient in the Dart success formula. The company's crack chemicals division, which is expected to show a 40% surge in profits this year, was put together in 1960 to produce polyethylene. It now has 170 U.S. and 460 foreign patents. Both G.E. and Exxon have become licensees. More important in Dart's view, the division contributes product technology to the company's other units, like Tupperware. By merger, Dart has also moved into fabricated plastic products and glass bottles...