Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan to video-tape a description of the murders by Underbill and Leon Walters, a former Green Beret who had also worked for Thevis. But before that could be done, both men were killed by shotgun blasts. Officials in Washington suspect the Mafia arranged the murder as a favor to Thevis: they believe he sold his porno operation to the Mob this fall. But Atlanta FBI agents disagree. In four previous attempts to kill Underbill, said an official, the suspected hit men were "redneck bank robbers from around here...
...headed by enthusiasts who see a mission to push new rules without regard to price. As a result, they have made little attempt to apply the most elementary cost-benefit analyses. Cheaper solutions that could achieve the same ends or almost the same ends have been ignored in favor of overkill. America has just not got value for money from its red-tape spending spree...
...time of possession advantage in Yale's favor was typical of the scenario that led up to a defensive lapse, a product of overwork that left Bruin Frank Boucher alone in the endzone or Eli Bob Krystyniak trotting downfield with no defender...
...House dome, the debate sizzled on. Finally, almost an hour behind schedule, the clergy and laity filed into antechambers, the bishops remained in the assembly hall, and all three groups « conducted separate votes, with a majority in each needed to pass the motion. Results: laity 120-106 in favor; bishops 32-17 in favor; clergy 149-94 opposed. As the final antiordination tally was read, Dr. Una Kroll, an Anglican feminist, stood up in the gallery and cried out: "We asked for bread, but you gave us a stone...
Though public opinion polls show that an overwhelming 75% of the country's people favor restrictions on the growth of private consumption over the next two or three years, labor is already bucking the wage guidelines. The liquor deliverers, who are demanding a 15.6% pay raise, have begun a strike that presents aquavit-loving Norwegians with the sobering prospect that their country may have its first dry Christmas since prohibition ended in 1927. Whether or not that happens, Norwegians caught in the freeze can take at least some solace from the fact that King Olav V's annual stipend...