Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerome Levinson, chief counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, accused the Defense Department and Northrop Corp. of teaming up to shield the names of high officers who accepted company favors in violation of Defense Department conflict-of-interest rules. The officers accepted invitations to spend weekends shooting duck, geese and quail at Northrop's leased hunting preserve near Easton, Md., even though the company, a major defense contractor, is currently angling for a multibillion-dollar contract to build 800 F-18 jet fighters for the Navy...
...remembers Patty as a little girl running through the family's former 15-room mansion in the wealthy suburb of Hillsborough. He is not overwhelmed by the Hearsts or intimidated by his job. Says he: "All of their money and power falls off me like water off a duck's back...
...wasn't a relief pitcher for the Tigers. But the days of beanball wars are over: even the designated hitter rule, which theoretically lets pitchers zap people with impunity (they themselves don't have to bat), hasn't changed that. No, the ball must have slipped; Rice didn't duck back quick enough. He even went to first and came around to score later than inning, and batted two more times before they took him out of the game. There wasn't even the rush of sudden tragedy, then--one read about it the next morning, a nightmare you squelch...
...brought up the previously published quote, "They've asked me everything but how often I sleep with my husband, and if they'd asked me that, I would have told them," and then asked for a response. Rather than duck the question she answered with humor, "As often as possible." At no time have I heard Mrs. Ford volunteer any smart quips on any of the many subjects the press is currently chastising...
...declined to sign the order, fearing that it would wreck the negotiations he was trying to maintain between the board and the strikers. "I'm so angry I can't speak," snapped Board President Dianne Feinstein, a candidate for Alioto's job when the lame-duck mayor's second four-year term expires in January. Replied Alioto: "That's the best speech she's ever made." Somehow, though, the city's divided authorities got together long enough to head off a strike by 1,900 transit workers that had been threatened...