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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army organizations have sprung up, and a Socialist group was sighted recently distributing...
Last week one of the pioneer REITS, Boston-based Continental Mortgage Investors, the nation's second largest, provided the latest example of how bad things have become in the REIT industry. It announced that it would default on $551 million in interest and principal payments now due on its borrowings. Caught by shrinking revenues and interest rates of 12% and more, Continental raised rates to builders to 16% or 17%. The builders could not afford such rates and simply walked away from projects. At one point, more than 60% of Continental's loans to builders had either been...
...particular seems to want to create his own style of Gilbert and Sullivan delivery rather than rely on the tried-and-true English accents and mannerisms that are part of the D'Oyly Carte canon. On the whole, his efforts are successful. Private Willis (Jay Paul) has the largest voice in the cast; during his one major song, his voice fills the theater with a plenitude and an effortlessness that none of the other performers can match...
...four goal outburst at the beginning of the second period sealed the Crimson's fate, as The Terriers skated off with a 8-3 victory before the largest crowd ever in B.U.'s modern arena. Seven different B.U. players scored, sharing a total of 43 shots on Harvard's frustrated Brian Petrovek...
...trading pieces of worthless paper that represent people's life savings for pieces of worthless paper that represent Gerry Ford's tenuous goodwill towards the Big Banks. In London, people are asking for a "table away from the windows." At Harvard, Henry Rosovsky is about to conduct the largest experiment in Ice Age studies ever. Everyone seems about ready to pull out the plug. Worst of all, this winter we can't shift all the blame on to the Arabs...