Word: extract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expansion than cooperation with its student members. Last year's progressive Coop Group slate ran on--and won-student directorships on a platform of higher employee wages and benefits, better working conditions, and more equitable pricing policies. Once elected, many worked hard for those goals, and did manage to extract some data from Coop management. But that...
...when he steps before a joint session of Congress and the TV cameras next week, the President will finally provide the answer: yes, he will ask for higher taxes, perhaps $40 billion to $60 billion over the next two fiscal years. If enacted-a very large if-they could extract more money from everyone who buys a beer or a pack of cigarettes or drives a car, possibly also from people who have sizable medical expenses or run up charge-account bills...
...Italian officials last week agreed that neither country would negotiate with the terrorists. At the same time, NATO headquarters in Brussels issued a statement saying that the Red Brigades had made a serious error if they expected to extract military secrets from Dozier. The general was described as being a specialist only in logistics and support activity, not in defense plans for the alliance...
...earthquake or tornado, the news always lists the dead, the missing and the "homeless," the last being considered itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been irrecoverably lost. In 1902 the genteel architect-writer Joy Wheeler Dowd wrote sweetly: "Every man or woman hopes one day to realize his or her particular dream of home." It did not have to be a Newport "cottage" or the Baths of Diocletian...
...Army major general who survived three years in prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War; in Berkeley, Calif. Dean was separated from troops of his 24th Infantry Division in 1950. After eluding Communist patrols for 30 days, he was captured but resisted all efforts by the enemy to extract military information from him. Dean won the Medal of Honor but said: "I'm just a dog-faced soldier...