Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University accused the union of intimidating voters on election day in several ways, including providing "discriminatory transportation" by flying in vacationing union supporters for the vote. The most important charge, union and Harvard officials said, is that HUCTW kept checklists of union supporters who had voted...
...Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane, who operate C&K Marketing of New Jersey (1987 sales: $9 million), allegedly awarded three prizes to friends, and in at least one of those cases kept the money for themselves. The C&K officials, who have conducted contests for dozens of major companies, including PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, have denied any wrongdoing...
...York City last March, an administrative judge awarded $26,647 to a man who was refused treatment by his longtime dental clinic. Some states, including California, Florida, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, have laws restricting the use of AIDS tests as an employee-screening device and directing that lab results be kept confidential. Last week New York joined the list by completing action on its version of a confidentiality bill...
...suggested that almost anything written about Johnson, including Goodwin's story, was true at one time or another. "He was the same as Lincoln, Napoleon, Churchill and other notable leaders," Valenti retorted. "He was an elemental force. He was eccentric. He used words and body language as weapons. He kept people off guard. But he knew what he was doing all the time...
...stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...