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Lawyers for the two sides said they disagree onthe importance of the papers which contain reviewsof tenure candidates by the Business School'stenure committee. The missing documents includethe mid-1970s and continue at least until theearly 1980s, Lawson said, but it is unclear if allpapers during the period were destroyed...
...violence as necessarily linked; to know one is to know the other. Vallens makes love to Jeffrey with carving knife in right hand, Jeffrey's genitalia in left. Booth rapes Vallens in a scene as sexually frank, brutal, and hard to bear as any contained in Bertolucci's great mid-1970s films. And murder victims' mouths are stuffed with blue velvet swatches, the chosen fetish of Booth, who covers Jeffrey's face with lipstick kisses moments before beating the absolute hell...
...Chernobyl station was started in the mid-1970s about 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on the banks of the Pripyat River...
...family also unwittingly became embroiled in a New York scandal during the mid-1970s. Loews had bought a $40 million stake in the Franklin National Bank, which was sold to Michele Sindona, an Italian financier. When the bank later failed, Sindona was convicted of looting its assets, and Loews was sued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a bankruptcy trustee for breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of inside information. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Loews agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the suits...
...among the most troubled. In a city of some 570,000 people, public-school enrollment has dropped from 93,000 in 1973 to only 59,000 today, in part because of the flight of white students to private and parochial schools after court-ordered busing began in the mid-1970s. In the high schools, the dropout rate has reached 43%. Only 3,000 seniors graduate each year...