Word: md
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While clubs affected by the ruling begin to grapple with the unfamiliar business of admitting women, a number of other male bastions not directly affected are bracing for the next round of challenges. The top targets: exclusionary country clubs and golf courses. The famed Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md., for instance, does not allow women to set foot on its greens as either members or guests. For the record, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is an avid golfer...
Willie Horton was supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a weekend furlough, an experiment that has been a cornerstone of Governor Michael Dukakis' criminal-justice program...
...smell the leathery Rolls interiors. Calls to the company increased fourfold the month after the ad appeared. Readers could also breathe deeply of DeKuyper's Original Peachtree Schnapps or scratch and catch a whiff of Ralston Purina's dog food Butcher's Blend. McCormick & Co. Inc. of Hunt Valley, Md., has put out its annual report on sales of its spices. The financial statements smelled of buttered cinnamon...
...completed an excellent season for Parker's crew. Harvard posted a 7-1 mark, its lone defeat coming in a race with Navy and Pennsylvania on the very choppy Severn River in Annapolis, Md. The heavies also claimed first place at the Eastern Sprints...
...First Officer David Dodds skipped critical parts of their preflight routine and neglected to set the wing flaps to provide enough lift for takeoff. But the Air Line Pilots Association argued that the board gave insufficient weight to the fact that the alarm system on the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 failed to warn the crew that the flaps were not in position. Said Allison Maus, the captain's widow: "It's easy to blame it on the dead guys...