Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students have traditionally stayed away from city contests. "They'll all register, but when it comes time to actually vote they just don't have the interest." Walter Sullivan, a conservative councilor with the city's largest electoral base, said earlier this fall...
Though Moscow has long been upset by celebrated defectors, it has rarely taken violent action to bring them back home in the post-Stalin era. Why the special interest in a gold medal canoeist? A big clue could lie in the book Cesiunas was planning to write for publication in the West prior to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The subject: an expose of how Soviet athletes use drugs in order to excel in international competitions...
That he might do so is precisely the hope of a research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...
...turn, by 1985 Renault will get a 22.5% interest in a company that, after teetering on the edge of disaster on and off for 25 years, is staging a modest rally, mainly because of the popularity of its reliable Jeep. In the nine months ended June 30, while Chrysler was sinking deeper into debt, AMC made a profit of $73.3 million, compared with $10.7 million in the same period a year earlier...
...potentially dangerous sharp edges and points on the rim. Kirk's conclusion, in a straight-faced report to the Journal of the American Medical Association: the lacerations had occurred when the players' hands hit the hoop while they were making slam dunk shots. Recommends Kirk: "In the interest of good sports medicine, all high school and college coaches, athletic directors and attending physicians should check these basketball goals to prevent further injuries to players...