Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more than a memory, but now a battle has broken out for control of Kennecott Copper Corp., the biggest U.S. copper producer. Curtiss-Wright, which owns about 10% of Kennecott stock, is appealing to Kennecott's stockholders to vote at the annual meeting on May 2 to dump the incumbent management and elect a new board...
...does the Navy reject the protest? Because it says the radiation level is very low. And besides, its dump is on federal property...
...strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility's plant. In the snow-covered hills of western Pennsylvania, roadblocks set up by striking pickets, sometimes 500 strong, forced coal-truck drivers to dump up to 100 tons at a time on the highways. Any drivers who refused could count on having their windshields smashed and their tires punctured with ice picks...
...Justice Department's Criminal Division. Marston had told a Civiletti aide, Russell ("Tim") Baker, that Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg was involved in a corruption investigation. Carter and Bell have said they did not know that Eilberg was a target at the time they agreed to his request to dump Marston. But what escaped their notice is another question...
...long night from the first faceoff. Harvard could do nothing right in the first period, reverting mostly to the dump and pray tactics that are never in a team strategy for the Beanpot final...