Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...
Carter's latest episode of rhetorical overkill may have won him some election campaign points, coming when oil companies have been announcing unexpectedly high profits. Last week, following reports by other major oil companies of large third-quarter profit boosts, including Exxon's 118% rise to a record $1.1 billion, the Standard Oil Co. of California announced a quarterly gain of 110%. Ten of the largest U.S. oil companies showed third-quarter gains averaging...
...temperaments, childlike vulnerability and childish tempestuousness. The howler-ridden script makes little effort to tie these bromides to a plot or flesh them out with psychological insights. We are asked to believe that Rose's problems all stem from a fateful night when she let the entire high school football team have its way with...
...Helms, who headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. A consummate professional, Helms was the proverbial man in the middle. His job was to furnish the best possible intelligence, and yet he had to contend with intense political pressures from the White House and the Pentagon. It was a high-wire act from which every CIA director has sooner or later tumbled...
...shock absorbers in my legs. It was wonderful." Others lift weights simply because they want to look better. Says Pete Grymkowski, owner of Gold's and currently Mr. World: "There's that Raquel Welch image they'd like: wide shoulders, slim waists and hips, firm and high breasts." Thirteen years of body building certainly have paid off for Christine Zane. Like Bentley, who dropped from 140 to 108 Ibs., Christine changed drastically: her shoulders got wider and she trimmed inches off her hips. Says she: "I always had a weight problem before I started training...