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Word: leaders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know the terrain now, and we know exactly what to expect from the police. It could be a different ending in the spring," one affinity group leader declared...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Seabrook Protest -- A Victory of Sorts | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...North American Coal Company is the second largest independent (not owned by oil companies) mining company in the United States, a leader in eastern underground coal mines," Crocker continues." So the company began looking for a way to get into western coal land, talking to the United Power Association and the Cooperative Power Association, two small utilities based in Minnesota. An agreement was made--the North American Coal Company would produce the coal and the utilities would transport and distribute the electricity...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: The Battle for the West | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...they make a $2,000 profit on them while we're making $700 on little cars. On top of that, they've got Sevilles selling at $5,700 profit per car; we don't have those baubles in our candy store. And GM is the price leader; it's not going to raise its prices $ 1,000 on little cars just so we can break even. We're the underdog, but that means we've just got to do it smarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lee lacocca's Hard Sell for Help | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

They have only one thing to do and they do it only once, mating in mid-air and then dying a horrible death. The female workers sometimes feed the young 1.300 times a day. When they dislike or distrust their leader, they cluster closely around her and crush or sting her to death. It is a process long known as "balling the queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sting | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...bathroom, I whirled on Haldeman, who had never meddled in substance, and castigated him for interfering at a moment of such crisis. Haldeman grinned shamefacedly, making clear by his bearing that Nixon had put him up to his little speech. I was used to many games from my complex leader; this one was beyond my comprehension-until the revelation of Nixon's taping system suggested a possible motive: the President wanted me unambiguously on record as supporting the operation lest the hated "Georgetown social set" seek to draw a distinction between him and me as they had on Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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