Word: kingstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard ultimate frisbee team is--so to speak--flying these days, most recently sending the discs soaring in Kingston, R.I., at the Eastern New England Sectional Tournament...
...Dartmouth loss comes at a particularly bad time, with the Crimson facing a hectic three-game week. The booters face cross-town rival Boston University this afternoon on the Business School pitch before moving on to Kingston Wednesday to face the University of Rhode Island...
Shail is one of 50 homeowners in upstate New York whose mortgages are now being called in for renegotiation by the Ulster Savings Bank of Kingston. All of the people obtained their loans in 1976 at the then prevailing interest rate of 8.5%. The agreements contained an unusual clause saying, in effect, that the mortgage-rate level could be re-established after five years. Shail thought that the clause was unimportant because New York had a law imposing an 8.5% interest ceiling on mortgages. In 1980, however, Congress passed a bill ending all such state usury restrictions on home loans...
...them in a crisis?up to 200,000 men in all?into an effective expeditionary force, and they are tackling their task with a zesty disrespect for bureaucratic tradition. Marine General P.X. Kelley, the R.D.F.'s first commander (he is about to be succeeded by Army Major General Robert Kingston), pared down lists of the supplies that his troops would lug into battle. Kelley even discovered that an Air Force ground crew is regularly supplied with ten times the quantity of beer and soft drinks that Army forces get. Units assigned to the R.D.F. will lose such amenities...
Weinberger shortly will give Kingston some actual troops to command: the 56,000 soldiers of the Army's 18th Airborne Corps, now based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Still the R.D.F. faces serious shortages both of manpower?most of the other units earmarked for it are also supposed to be available to reinforce NATO in an emergency?and of equipment. More than that, the airlift and sea-lift capacity does not exist to carry R.D.F. troops into battle as quickly as might be required...