Word: mille
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That outlook may work for CBS and The Washington Post, but how about the smaller news organizations who have to contend with high insurance premiums and the threat of utter bankruptcy? Do you think that the specter of multi-mill, a dollar law suits will, in practice, chill them...
Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem. But her reputation began to decline with the new century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement...
According to another striker, Laird C. Touessend, a 22-year-old senior from Mill Valley, Calif., Sovern said he agreed that apartheid hurts South Africa's 22 million Blacks, but said he feels American companies operating there can improve their plight. This position is basically the same as that of Harvard President Bok in opposing divestment...
...Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such maneuvers as spraying skunk scent in the vaults of Mellon banks and disrupting worship services attended by executives. Roth's political preaching and his support of D.M.S. despite its tactics incensed many members of his church...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...