Search Details

Word: dumped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...raiser. Industrialist Leopold Wyler received guests at his home, where cocaine was used by what she described as "the White House people." Wyler, founder of TRE Corp., a Beverly Hills aerospace firm, was Carter's finance chairman in the 1976 California primary campaign, but has since joined a dump-Carter movement. Wyler said he had suspected that coke was used at his party, but insists that he "was very displeased with what seemed to be going on." He said he did not see Jordan or any of the other Carter associates using the drug. The use of cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Coke Case | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...that arose in 1964 when Studebaker stopped production and workers were left with little or no benefits. Now the pension protector is itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date was $35 million. In the unlikely event that Chrysler went into total bankruptcy and reneged on its pensions, the federal agency would have to put up perhaps $780 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Danger: Pension Perils Ahead | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...intend to run a positive campaign. This is not a 'dump Carter' effort in any sense of the word," E.E. "Bo" Edwards, Nashville attorney who is leading the draft Kennedy campaign, said Saturday. Edwards was the state coordinator in Kentucky for Robert Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, and he was treasurer of Carter's 1976 Tennessee campaign for the Presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Movement Reaches Tennessee | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Indochinese refugee situation must be recognized as Asia's effort to dump its excess population on Western nations. The people involved are not "political refugees," but simply masses of poor people bent on improving their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...landscape. Spectacle Island--so named for its bifocal shape--housed a leper colony during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most advanced cases of leprosy were dispatched to the island, a natural quarantine. Later, a glue factory located itself on the island, and later yet, a huge dump, where much of Boston's sewage and trash was left for much of this century. An island-wide, spontaneous-combustion fire devoured the island in the early '60s, and what remains is perhaps a microcosm of every holocaust/armageddon novel ever written...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Piracy, Prisoners and Lepers of Old | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | Next