Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...values, and with compassion--an image he shrewdly manages to preserve at the expense of the reputations of his underlings. When labor law scholar Bok tries to bust a union, he sits quietly in his office, while Associate Vice President for Human Resources Ann Taylor is sent to the front lines to use scare tactics and talk worse-case scenarios...
...philosopher Lao Tze said two milennia ago, "The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death?" Even those Chinese who would prefer to be apolitical were touched by the hunger strikers. One million people gathered for days and nights in front of the Forbidden City, defying and challenging the reluctant, if not entirely untouchable, authority...
...convinced college deans that it might be necessary to restrict parietal privileges for students at both Harvard and at Radcliffe. But as concern over proposed reduction in parietal privileges claimed the attention of both students and officials, the ensuing conflict escalated into a sex scandal that reached the front pages of salubrious national tabloids like Boston's own Record American...
...been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect $100,000 in life insurance. At the same time, they said it was also possible that the other sailor, Gunner's Mate Second Class Clayton Hartwig, 25, intentionally...
...sheriff's radio, an unmarked white Chrysler rips out of a gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...