Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal, like most, resulted from an error. An errant Crimson clearing pass ended up on the stick of UNH defenseman Sean Cody, who was positioned just inside the blue line. Coady promptly rapped a shot in Lau's general direction and the puck skewed off Wildcats Dan Forget and into the far corner of the Crimson...
With bumper stickers and parades, Cantabrigians will honor Cambridge's 350th birthday. Actually, it's the 346th--the city founded in 1630 as Newtowne changed its name to honor the English college town on the banks of the Cam the same year that the Great and General Court granted Harvard its charter...
...Last week she announced a package of tough new policies. Among them: a stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...complaint follows a three-year investigation, aided by the confessions of Joel Dolkart, G& W's former general counsel, who was convicted in 1976 of forging a $250,000 check. The charges accuse the company of artificially inflating the value of some G &W assets; hiding losses by shuffling money and stock among subsidiaries; risking huge sums in unauthorized speculations in the commodities market; improperly transferring funds in and out of the Dominican Republic; investing G & W pension funds in outside businesses that benefited the officers; and using company legal, tax and financial services for private endeavors...
Arguing for the Government, Assistant Attorney General Drew Days maintained that Congress had no need to provide a detailed justification for the 10% set-aside, since it had "unique competence" to right past wrongs as it saw fit. Although the Government had been trying to help minority businesses in various ways for ten years, going back to the Nixon Administration's "black capitalism" campaign, Days said, "Congress concluded that these measures simply had not worked," and that quotas therefore were necessary...