Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the new rules have stopped the huge fat-cat giving of the past, the rich have other ways of affecting political campaigns. They can contribute up to $5,000 to any of the 1,828 political action committees (PACs), which in turn can hand that sum on to candidates. Corporations, by soliciting their employees and stockholders, can form PACs too. Since the mid-'70s, companies and their trade associations have formed some 1,200 of these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent...
...classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...
...EMPLOYER: I had many offers to be chief executive of big [nonauto] companies. But when I was 14 decided to go into the auto business. [At Princeton University] I went for a master's degree in engineering and I built an automatic transmission, a torque converter, by hand; that was my thesis. [At Ford] I got pretty damn good, just through the passage of time. After 32 years I really became, in my trade, a brilliant brain surgeon and suddenly I find myself dismissed, shocked, and my thoughts were: "I don't want to operate...
...young teacher named Alison Chase. When he and Classmate Moses Pendleton found, to their total astonishment, that the strange gymnastic writhings they were inventing led to coherent routines, and then to the formation of a small dance troupe, the carefully unserious name for the new enterprise was at hand. Calling their troupe Pilobolus was, it seems now, an ironical reminder to themselves not to expect too much. Perhaps it was also a wry announcement to the ski racers and white-water canoeists of the Hanover, N.H., campus that, dancers or not, they considered themselves more jocks than aesthetes...
...left-winger, the National Hockey League gained not only a new idol, the Golden Jet, but also a new scoring weapon, the slapshot. At his best, Hull could skate at nearly 30 m.p.h., and his shot whistled at 118 m.p.h., sometimes knocking the glove off the goaltender's hand...