Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ships in Russian in an attempt to persuade them of the wrongfulness of their acts. But with little success: in one case a captain ordered the crew to drag through the ice-cold water an ecologist who had grabbed onto the cable the whaler was using to haul a whale up to the boat. "Voyages" was filmed along the Northern California coast and on the North Pacific. Last Days of the Dolphin, the second film, is narrated by Dick Cavett...
...characters like Kepesh: enough, already, of Jewish intellectual sex maniacs. Such criticism is self-incriminating, a tribute to Roth's wicked skill at probing nerves and making people who think they know better say silly things. Like most writers who prove they have enough talent for the long haul of a career, Roth has found the story he will tell until either he or it is exhausted. It is a good story and, as The Professor of Desire proves, it gets better with each telling...
...remedy that poverty, All Our Children proposes nothing less than an over haul of America's economic structure, from welfare and taxes to health care. Although proposals such as "flexible hours"-in which employees would determine their own daily schedules-would require drastic readjustments by private industry, the report focuses primarily on what government action is needed. Among the specific recommendations...
...wild-shooting Guardsmen and state police (as at Kent State and Jackson State universities in 1970) have no recourse except to sue the individual government employees at fault. Over the past 40 years, 38 states and the Federal Government have abolished or modified the doctrine, allowing citizens to haul various governments into court as they would a private party. State courts and legislatures have largely abolished sovereign immunity for municipalities, too. But Massachusetts has retained it, and at the time of Bridget Neville's accident the city provided only $15,000 worth of maximum liability coverage for each...
...raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed an ounce of gold in her fist. His bloodshot eyes glistening, Manion later reckoned that the day's haul, which included a few more nuggets, was worth about $200. Good, but not good enough. Said he: "I'm still looking for that glory hole and the nugget that takes two hands to hold...